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This patch uses the reworked exception handling support to handle
runtime service requests through SMCs following the SMC calling
convention. This is a giant commit since all the changes are
inter-related. It does the following:

1. Replace the old exception handling mechanism with the new one
2. Enforce that SP_EL0 is used C runtime stacks.
3. Ensures that the cold and warm boot paths use the 'cpu_context'
   structure to program an ERET into the next lower EL.
4. Ensures that SP_EL3 always points to the next 'cpu_context'
   structure prior to an ERET into the next lower EL
5. Introduces a PSCI SMC handler which completes the use of PSCI as a
   runtime service

Change-Id: I661797f834c0803d2c674d20f504df1b04c2b852
Co-authored-by: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>

This patch uses the context library to save and restore EL3 state on
the 'cpu_context' data structures allocated by PSCI for managing
non-secure state context on each cpu.

Change-Id: I19c1f26578204a7cd9e0a6c582ced0d97ee4cf80

This patch adds support for a cpu context management library. This
library will be used to:

1. Share pointers to secure and non-secure state cpu contexts between
   runtime services e.g. PSCI and Secure Payload Dispatcher services
2. Set SP_EL3 to a context structure which will be used for
   programming an ERET into a lower EL
3. Provide wrapper functions to save and restore EL3 & EL1
   state. These functions will in turn use the helper functions in
   context.S

Change-Id: I655eeef83dcd2a0c6f2eb2ac23efab866ac83ca0

This patch ensures that VBAR_EL3 points to the simple stack-less
'early_exceptions' when the C runtime stack is not correctly setup to
use the more complex 'runtime_exceptions'. It is initialised to
'runtime_exceptions' once this is done.

This patch also moves all exception vectors into a '.vectors' section
and modifies linker scripts to place all such sections together. This
will minimize space wastage from alignment restrictions.

Change-Id: I8c3e596ea3412c8bd582af9e8d622bb1cb2e049d

The secure context saved and restored across a cpu_suspend operation
can be more than just the state of the secure system registers e.g. we
also need to save the affinity level till which the cpu is being
powered down. This patch creates a suspend_context data structure
which includes the system register context. This will allow other bits
to be saved and restored as well in subsequent patches.

Change-Id: I1c1f7d25497388b54b7d6ee4fab77e8c6a9992c4

Traps when accessing architectural features are disabled by clearing bits
in CPTR_EL3 during early boot, including accesses to floating point
registers. The value of this register was previously undetermined, causing
unwanted traps to EL3. Future EL3 code (for example, context save/restore
code) may use floating point registers, although they are not used by current
code.

Also, the '-mgeneral-regs-only' flag is enabled in the GCC settings to
prevent generation of code that uses floating point registers.

Change-Id: I9a03675f6387bbbee81a6f2c9ccf81150db03747

Change-Id: Ic7fb61aabae1d515b9e6baf3dd003807ff42da60

This patch removes the duplicate declaration of psci_cpu_on in psci.h
and moves the constants for the system level implementation of the
generic timer from arch_helpers.h to arch.h. All other architectural
constants are defined in arch.h so there is no need to add them to
arch_helpers.h

Change-Id: Ia8ad3f91854f7e57fce31873773eede55c384ff1

- Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.

- Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.

Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5

  - Check at link-time that bootloader images will fit in memory
    at run time and that they won't overlap each other.
  - Remove text and rodata orphan sections.
  - Define new linker symbols to remove the need for platform setup
    code to know the order of sections.
  - Reduce the size of the raw binary images by cutting some sections
    out of the disk image and allocating them at load time, whenever
    possible.
  - Rework alignment constraints on sections.
  - Remove unused linker symbols.
  - Homogenize linker symbols names across all BLs.
  - Add some comments in the linker scripts.

Change-Id: I47a328af0ccc7c8ab47fcc0dc6e7dd26160610b9