- 17 Feb, 2014 3 commits
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Jeenu Viswambharan authored
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>
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Achin Gupta authored
This patch introduces the reworked exception handling logic which lays the foundation for accessing runtime services in later patches. The type of an exception has a greater say in the way it is handled. SP_EL3 is used as the stack pointer for: 1. Determining the type of exception and handling the unexpected ones on the exception stack 2. Saving and restoring the essential general purpose and system register state after exception entry and prior to exception exit. SP_EL0 is used as the stack pointer for handling runtime service requests e.g. SMCs. A new structure for preserving general purpose register state has been added to the 'cpu_context' structure. All assembler ensures that it does not use callee saved registers (x19-x29). The C runtime preserves them across functions calls. Hence EL3 code does not have to save and restore them explicitly. Since the exception handling framework has undergone substantial change, the changes have been kept in separate files to aid readability. These files will replace the existing ones in subsequent patches. Change-Id: Ice418686592990ff7a4260771e8d6676e6c8c5ef
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Achin Gupta authored
This patch introduces functions for saving and restoring shared system registers between secure and non-secure EL1 exception levels, VFP registers and essential EL3 system register and other state. It also defines the 'cpu_context' data structure which will used for saving and restoring execution context for a given security state. These functions will allow runtime services like PSCI and Secure payload dispatcher to implement logic for switching between the secure and non-secure states. The save and restore functions follow AArch64 PCS and only use caller-saved temporary registers. Change-Id: I8ee3aaa061d3caaedb28ae2c5becb9a206b6fd74
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