1. 17 Feb, 2014 3 commits
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      Add support for handling runtime service requests · caa84939
      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: default avatarAchin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
      caa84939
    • Achin Gupta's avatar
      Introduce new exception handling framework · 07f4e078
      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
      07f4e078
    • Achin Gupta's avatar
      Add helper library for cpu context management · 9ac63c59
      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
      9ac63c59