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SPE is only supported in non-secure state.  Accesses to SPE specific
registers from SEL1 will trap to EL3.  During a world switch, before
`TTBR` is modified the SPE profiling buffers are drained.  This is to
avoid a potential invalid memory access in SEL1.

SPE is architecturally specified only for AArch64.

Change-Id: I04a96427d9f9d586c331913d815fdc726855f6b0
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

This patch adds the memory map region for the SCMI payload memory
and maps the Juno core indices to SCMI power domains via the
`plat_css_core_pos_to_scmi_dmn_id_map` array.

Change-Id: I0d2bb2a719ff5b6a9d8e22e91e1625ab14453665
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

This patch adds the SCMI driver for communicating with SCP. The power
domain management and system power management protocol of the SCMI
specification[1] is implemented in the driver. The SCP power management
abstraction layer for SCMI for CSS power management is also added.

A new buid option `CSS_USE_SCMI_DRIVER` is introduced to select SCMI
driver over SCPI.

[1] ARM System Control and Management Interface v1.0 (SCMI)
Document number: ARM DEN 0056A

Change-Id: I67265615a17e679a2afe810b9b0043711ba09dbb
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Platforms aligned with TBBR are supposed to use their own OIDs, but
defining the same macros with different OIDs does not provide any
value (at least technically).

For easier use of TBBR, this commit allows platforms to reuse the OIDs
obtained by ARM Ltd.  This will be useful for non-ARM vendors that
do not need their own extension fields in their certificate files.

The OIDs of ARM Ltd. have been moved to include/tools_share/tbbr_oid.h

Platforms can include <tbbr_oid.h> instead of <platform_oid.h> by
defining USE_TBBR_DEFS as 1.  USE_TBBR_DEFS is 0 by default to keep the
backward compatibility.

For clarification, I inserted a blank line between headers from the
include/ directory (#include <...>) and ones from a local directory
(#include "..." ).
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Add support for firmware upgrade on AArch32.
This patch has been tested on the FVP models.

NOTE: Firmware upgrade on Juno AArch32 is not currently supported.

Change-Id: I1ca8078214eaf86b46463edd14740120af930aec
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Yatharth Kochar <yatharth.kochar@arm.com>

This patch adds `TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT` support for AArch32 mode.

To build this patch the "mbedtls/include/mbedtls/bignum.h"
needs to be modified to remove `#define MBEDTLS_HAVE_UDBL`
when `MBEDTLS_HAVE_INT32` is defined. This is a workaround
for "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/issues/708

"

NOTE: TBBR support on Juno AArch32 is not currently supported.

Change-Id: I86d80e30b9139adc4d9663f112801ece42deafcf
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Yatharth Kochar <yatharth.kochar@arm.com>

In AArch64, privileged exception levels control the execution state
(a.k.a. register width) of the immediate lower Exception Level; i.e.
whether the lower exception level executes in AArch64 or AArch32 state.
For an exception level to have its execution state changed at run time,
it must request the change by raising a synchronous exception to the
higher exception level.

This patch implements and adds such a provision to the ARM SiP service,
by which an immediate lower exception level can request to switch its
execution state. The execution state is switched if the request is:

  - raised from non-secure world;

  - raised on the primary CPU, before any secondaries are brought online
    with CPU_ON PSCI call;

  - raised from an exception level immediately below EL3: EL2, if
    implemented; otherwise NS EL1.

If successful, the SMC doesn't return to the caller, but to the entry
point supplied with the call. Otherwise, the caller will observe the SMC
returning with STATE_SW_E_DENIED code. If ARM Trusted Firmware is built
for AArch32, the feature is not supported, and the call will always
fail.

For the ARM SiP service:

  - Add SMC function IDs for both AArch32 and AArch64;
  - Increment the SiP service minor version to 2;
  - Adjust the number of supported SiP service calls.

Add documentation for ARM SiP service.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#436

Change-Id: I4347f2d6232e69fbfbe333b340fcd0caed0a4cea
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

To make software license auditing simpler, use SPDX[0] license
identifiers instead of duplicating the license text in every file.

NOTE: Files that have been imported by FreeBSD have not been modified.

[0]: https://spdx.org/



Change-Id: I80a00e1f641b8cc075ca5a95b10607ed9ed8761a
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

utils.h is included in various header files for the defines in it.
Some of the other header files only contain defines.  This allows the
header files to be shared between host and target builds for shared defines.

Recently types.h has been included in utils.h as well as some function
prototypes.

Because of the inclusion of types.h conflicts exist building host tools
abd these header files now.  To solve this problem,
move the defines to utils_def.h and have this included by utils.h and
change header files to only include utils_def.h and not pick up the new
types.h being introduced.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#461
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>

Remove utils_def.h from utils.h

This patch removes utils_def.h from utils.h as it is not required.
And also makes a minor change to ensure Juno platform compiles.

Change-Id: I10cf1fb51e44a8fa6dcec02980354eb9ecc9fa29

The CSS power management layer previously allowed to suspend system
power domain level via both PSCI CPU_SUSPEND and PSCI SYSTEM_SUSPEND
APIs. System suspend via PSCI CPU_SUSPEND was always problematic to
support because of issues with targeting wakeup interrupts to
suspended cores before the per-cpu GIC initialization is done. This
is not the case for PSCI SYSTEM_SUSPEND API because all the other
cores are expected to be offlined prior to issuing system suspend and
PSCI CPU_ON explicit calls will be made to power them on. Hence the Juno
platform used to downgrade the PSCI CPU_SUSPEND request for system
power domain level to cluster level by overriding the default
`plat_psci_pm_ops` exported by CSS layer.

Given the direction the new CSS platforms are evolving, it is best to
limit the system suspend only via PSCI SYSTEM_SUSPEND API for all
CSS platforms. This patch makes changes to allow system suspend
only via PSCI SYSTEM_SUSPEND API. The override of `plat_psci_ops`
for Juno is removed.

Change-Id: Idb30eaad04890dd46074e9e888caeedc50a4b533
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

This patch adds support for SP_MIN on JUNO platform.
The changes include addition of AArch32 assembly files,
JUNO specific SP_MIN make file and miscellaneous changes
in ARM platform files to enable support for SP_MIN.

Change-Id: Id1303f422fc9b98b9362c757b1a4225a16fffc0b
Signed-off-by: Yatharth Kochar <yatharth.kochar@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Following steps are required to boot JUNO in AArch32 state:
1> BL1, in AArch64 state, loads BL2.
2> BL2, in AArch64 state, initializes DDR.
  Loads SP_MIN & BL33 (AArch32 executable)images.
  Calls RUN_IMAGE SMC to go back to BL1.
3> BL1 writes AArch32 executable opcodes, to load and branch
  at the entrypoint address of SP_MIN, at HI-VECTOR address and
  then request for warm reset in AArch32 state using RMR_EL3.

This patch makes following changes to facilitate above steps:
* Added assembly function to carry out step 3 above.
* Added region in TZC that enables Secure access to the
  HI-VECTOR(0xFFFF0000) address space.
* AArch32 image descriptor is used, in BL2, to load
  SP_MIN and BL33 AArch32 executable images.

A new flag `JUNO_AARCH32_EL3_RUNTIME` is introduced that
controls above changes. By default this flag is disabled.

NOTE: BL1 and BL2 are not supported in AArch32 state for JUNO.

Change-Id: I091d56a0e6d36663e6d9d2bb53c92c672195d1ec
Signed-off-by: Yatharth Kochar <yatharth.kochar@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

ARM platforms have migrated to the translation tables library v2.
However, for testing purposes, it can be useful to temporarily switch
back to the old version.

This patch introduces the option `ARM_XLAT_TABLES_LIB_V1`, that switches
to v1 of the library when is set to 1. By default, it is 0, so that ARM
platforms use the new version unless specifically stated.

Updated User Guide.

Change-Id: I53d3c8dd97706f6af9c6fca0364a88ef341efd31
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Some header files using the ULL() macro were not directly including
utils.h where the macro definition resides. As a consequence, a linker
script with values using this macro did not see the macro definition
and kept the "ULL(<value>)" call in the preprocessed file, which lead to
link error.

Files using ULL() macro now include utils.h directly.

Change-Id: I433a7f36bd21a156c20e69bc2a2bb406140ebdf9
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

This patch modifies some of the functions in ARM platform layer to cater
for the case when multi-threading `MT` is set in MPIDR. A new build flag
`ARM_PLAT_MT` is added, and when enabled, the functions accessing MPIDR
now assume that the `MT` bit is set for the platform and access the bit
fields accordingly.

Also, a new API plat_arm_get_cpu_pe_count is added when `ARM_PLAT_MT` is
enabled, returning the PE count within the physical cpu corresponding to
`mpidr`.

Change-Id: I04ccf212ac3054a60882761f4087bae299af13cb
Signed-off-by: Summer Qin <summer.qin@arm.com>

Modify ARM common makefile to use version 2 of the translation tables
library and include the new header in C files.

Simplify header dependencies related to this library to simplify the
change.

The following table contains information about the size increase in
bytes for BL1 after applying this patch. The code has been compiled for
different configurations of FVP in AArch64 mode with compiler GCC 4.9.3
20150413. The sizes have been calculated with the output of `nm` by
adding the size of all regions and comparing the total size before and
after the change. They are sumarized in the table below:

                               text   bss   data  total
        Release                +660   -20    +88   +728
        Debug                  +740   -20   +242   +962
        Debug (LOG_LEVEL=50)  +1120   -20   +317  +1417

Change-Id: I539e307f158ab71e3a8b771640001fc1bf431b29
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Added APIs to add and remove regions to the translation tables
dynamically while the MMU is enabled. Only static regions are allowed
to overlap other static ones (for backwards compatibility).

A new private attribute (MT_DYNAMIC / MT_STATIC) has been added to
flag each region as such.

The dynamic mapping functionality can be enabled or disabled when
compiling by setting the build option PLAT_XLAT_TABLES_DYNAMIC to 1
or 0. This can be done per-image.

TLB maintenance code during dynamic table mapping and unmapping has
also been added.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#310

Change-Id: I19e8992005c4292297a382824394490c5387aa3b
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Due to incorrect conditional compilation checks, bakery locks were
excluded from the CCN driver and the power controller driver for FVP
when BL32 was built as the EL3 Runtime Software in AArch32 mode.
This patch corrects the same.

Change-Id: Ib1f163d9167a5c38e4d622232c4835cad9c235aa
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

On Juno, the secure privileged invasive debug authentication signal
(SPIDEN) is controlled by board SCC registers, which by default enable
SPIDEN.  Disable secure privileged external debug in release builds by
programming the appropriate Juno SoC registers.

Change-Id: I61045f09a47dc647bbe95e1b7a60e768f5499f49
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

With GCC 6.2 compiler, more C undefined behaviour is being flagged as
warnings, which result in build errors in ARM TF build.

The specific issue that this patch resolves is the use of (1 << 31),
which is predominantly used in case statements, where 1 is represented
as a signed int. When shifted to msb the behaviour is undefined.

The resolution is to specify 1 as an unsigned int using a convenience
macro ULL(). A duplicate macro MAKE_ULL() is replaced.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#438

Change-Id: I08e3053bbcf4c022ee2be33a75bd0056da4073e1
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

One nasty part of ATF is some of boolean macros are always defined
as 1 or 0, and the rest of them are only defined under certain
conditions.

For the former group, "#if FOO" or "#if !FOO" must be used because
"#ifdef FOO" is always true.  (Options passed by $(call add_define,)
are the cases.)

For the latter, "#ifdef FOO" or "#ifndef FOO" should be used because
checking the value of an undefined macro is strange.

Here, IMAGE_BL* is handled by make_helpers/build_macro.mk like
follows:

  $(eval IMAGE := IMAGE_BL$(call uppercase,$(3)))

  $(OBJ): $(2)
          @echo "  CC      $$<"
          $$(Q)$$(CC) $$(TF_CFLAGS) $$(CFLAGS) -D$(IMAGE) -c $$< -o $$@

This means, IMAGE_BL* is defined when building the corresponding
image, but *undefined* for the other images.

So, IMAGE_BL* belongs to the latter group where we should use #ifdef
or #ifndef.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

As with other ARM platform GIC APIs, these directly invoke the GICv3
driver APIs for Redistributor power management.

For the sake of uniform GIC API, empty stubs are placed for those GIC
drivers that lack Redistributor component.

Change-Id: Iad0d760d4dbca790998f7768cda621ff3b15a864
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

This patch enables TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT (Authentication and FWU)
support, for AArch64, when LOAD_IMAGE_V2 is enabled.

This patch also enables LOAD_IMAGE_V2 for ARM platforms.

Change-Id: I294a2eebce7a30b6784c80c9d4ac7752808ee3ad
Signed-off-by: Yatharth Kochar <yatharth.kochar@arm.com>

The now deprecated ADDR_SPACE_SIZE has been replaced by the two
defines PLAT_PHY_ADDR_SPACE_SIZE and PLAT_VIRT_ADDR_SPACE_SIZE.

Change-Id: I027a2f02f47ab2f679b8979a6dbfb0f08270a1a4
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The capabilities exposed by the PSCI generic layer depends on the hooks
populated by the platform in `plat_arm_psci_pm_ops`. Currently ARM
Standard platforms statically define this structure. However, some
platforms may want to modify the hooks at runtime before registering
them with the generic layer.

This patch introduces a new ARM platform layer API
`plat_arm_psci_override_pm_ops` which allows the platform to probe
the power controller and modify `plat_arm_psci_pm_ops` if required.
Consequently, 'plat_arm_psci_pm_ops' is no longer qualified as
`const` on ARM Standard platforms.

Change-Id: I7dbb44b7bd36c20ec14ded5ee45a96816ca2ab9d
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

This patch introduces an additional layer of abstraction between
CSS power management hooks and the SCPI driver. A new set of APIs
are introduced in order to abstract out power management operations
from underlying communication mechanism with the SCP.

The SCPI and the associated MHU drivers are moved into a `drivers`
folder in CSS. The new SCP communication abstraction layer is added
in the `drivers/scp` folder. The existing CSS power management
uses the new APIs to reflect this abstraction.

Change-Id: I7d775129fc0558e9703c2724523fb8f0a916838c
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

This patch adds ARM SiP service for use by ARM standard platforms.
This service is added to support the SMC interface for the Performance
measurement framework(PMF).

Change-Id: I26f5712f9ab54f5f721dd4781e35a16f40aacc44
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

This patch adds support in SP_MIN to receive generic and
platform specific arguments from BL2.

The new signature is as following:
    void sp_min_early_platform_setup(void *from_bl2,
         void *plat_params_from_bl2);

ARM platforms have been modified to use this support.

Note: Platforms may break if using old signature.
      Default value for RESET_TO_SP_MIN is changed to 0.

Change-Id: I008d4b09fd3803c7b6231587ebf02a047bdba8d0

This patch adds changes in ARM platform code to use new
version of image loading.

Following are the major changes:
  -Refactor the signatures for bl31_early_platform_setup()
   and arm_bl31_early_platform_setup() function to use
   `void *` instead of `bl31_params_t *`.
  -Introduce `plat_arm_bl2_handle_scp_bl2()` to handle
   loading of SCP_BL2 image from BL2.
  -Remove usage of reserve_mem() function from
   `arm_bl1_early_platform_setup()`
  -Extract BL32 & BL33 entrypoint info, from the link list
   passed by BL2, in `arm_bl31_early_platform_setup()`
  -Provides weak definitions for following platform functions:
     plat_get_bl_image_load_info
     plat_get_next_bl_params
     plat_flush_next_bl_params
     bl2_plat_handle_post_image_load
  -Instantiates a descriptor array for ARM platforms
   describing image and entrypoint information for
   `SCP_BL2`, `BL31`, `BL32` and `BL33` images.

All the above changes are conditionally compiled using the
`LOAD_IMAGE_V2` flag.

Change-Id: I5e88b9785a3df1a2b2bbbb37d85b8e353ca61049

This patch implements CSS platform hook to support NODE_HW_STATE PSCI
API. The platform hook queries SCP to obtain CSS power state. Power
states returned by SCP are then converted to expected PSCI return codes.

Juno's PSCI operation structure is modified to use the CSS
implementation.

Change-Id: I4a5edac0e5895dd77b51398cbd78f934831dafc0

This patch adds a couple of missing forward declarations in plat_arm.h
so that all types it references are known within this header file,
without relying on previous header inclusions. This concerns the
meminfo and bl31_params structures, which are defined in bl_common.h.
Other external types referenced from plat_arm.h (e.g. mmap_region_t)
get declared through header files included by arm_plat.h so they
don't need forward declarations.

Change-Id: I471d5aa487919aff3fa979fc65e053f4f5b0ef32

This patch implements the support for SP_MIN in FVP. The SP_MIN platform
APIs are implemented and the required makefile support is added for FVP.

Change-Id: Id50bd6093eccbd5e38894e3fd2b20d5baeac5452

This patch adds AArch32 support for FVP and implements common platform APIs
like `plat_get_my_stack`, `plat_set_my_stack`, `plat_my_core_cos` for AArch32.
Only Multi Processor(MP) implementations of these functions are considered in
this patch. The ARM Standard platform layer helpers are implemented for
AArch32 and the common makefiles are modified to cater for both AArch64 and
AArch32 builds. Compatibility with the deprecated platform API is not
supported for AArch32.

Change-Id: Iad228400613eec91abf731b49e21a15bcf2833ea

Compile option `ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MMAP` has been renamed to
`ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MEM` because it now applies not only to defines
related to the translation tables but to the image size as well.

The defines `PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL1_RW_SIZE`, `PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL2_SIZE` and
`PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL31_SIZE` have been moved to the file board_arm_def.h.
This way, ARM platforms no longer have to set their own values if
`ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MEM=0` and they can specify optimized values
otherwise. The common sizes have been set to the highest values used
for any of the current build configurations.

This is needed because in some build configurations some images are
running out of space. This way there is a common set of values known
to work for all of them and it can be optimized for each particular
platform if needed.

The space reserved for BL2 when `TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=0` has been
increased. This is needed because when memory optimisations are
disabled the values for Juno of `PLAT_ARM_MMAP_ENTRIES` and
`MAX_XLAT_TABLES` are higher. If in this situation the code is
compiled in debug mode and with "-O0", the code won't fit.

Change-Id: I70a3d8d3a0b0cad1d6b602c01a7ea334776e718e

This patch reworks type usage in generic code, drivers and ARM platform files
to make it more portable. The major changes done with respect to
type usage are as listed below:

* Use uintptr_t for storing address instead of uint64_t or unsigned long.
* Review usage of unsigned long as it can no longer be assumed to be 64 bit.
* Use u_register_t for register values whose width varies depending on
  whether AArch64 or AArch32.
* Use generic C types where-ever possible.

In addition to the above changes, this patch also modifies format specifiers
in print invocations so that they are AArch64/AArch32 agnostic. Only files
related to upcoming feature development have been reworked.

Change-Id: I9f8c78347c5a52ba7027ff389791f1dad63ee5f8

On ARM CSS platforms, the whole flash used to be mapped as executable.
This is not required, given that the flash is used to store the BL1
and FIP images and:

 - The FIP is not executed in place, its images are copied to RAM
   and executed from there.

 - BL1 is executed in place from flash but only its code needs to be
   mapped as executable and platform code takes care of re-mapping
   BL1's read-only section as executable.

Therefore, this patch now maps the flash as non-executable by default
on these platforms. This increases security by restricting the
executable region to what is strictly needed.

This patch also adds some comments to clarify the memory mapping
attributes on these platforms.

Change-Id: I4db3c145508bea1f43fbe0f6dcd551e1aec1ecd3

The arm_setup_page_tables() function used to expect a single set of
addresses defining the extents of the whole read-only section, code
and read-only data mixed up, which was mapped as executable.

This patch changes this behaviour. arm_setup_page_tables() now
expects 2 separate sets of addresses:

 - the extents of the code section;
 - the extents of the read-only data section.

The code is mapped as executable, whereas the data is mapped as
execute-never. New #defines have been introduced to identify the
extents of the code and the read-only data section. Given that
all BL images except BL1 share the same memory layout and linker
script structure, these #defines are common across these images.
The slight memory layout differences in BL1 have been handled by
providing values specific to BL1.

Note that this patch also affects the Xilinx platform port, which
uses the arm_setup_page_tables() function. It has been updated
accordingly, such that the memory mappings on this platform are
unchanged. This is achieved by passing null values as the extents
of the read-only data section so that it is ignored. As a result,
the whole read-only section is still mapped as executable.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#85

Change-Id: I1f95865c53ce6e253a01286ff56e0aa1161abac5

This patch introduces a new header file: include/lib/utils.h.
Its purpose is to provide generic macros and helper functions that
are independent of any BL image, architecture, platform and even
not specific to Trusted Firmware.

For now, it contains only 2 macros: ARRAY_SIZE() and
IS_POWER_OF_TWO(). These were previously defined in bl_common.h and
xlat_tables.c respectively.

bl_common.h includes utils.h to retain compatibility for platforms
that relied on bl_common.h for the ARRAY_SIZE() macro. Upstream
platform ports that use this macro have been updated to include
utils.h.

Change-Id: I960450f54134f25d1710bfbdc4184f12c049a9a9

This patch introduces the arm_setup_page_tables() function to
set up page tables on ARM platforms. It replaces the
arm_configure_mmu_elx() functions and does the same thing except
that it doesn't enable the MMU at the end. The idea is to reduce
the amount of per-EL code that is generated by the C preprocessor
by splitting the memory regions definitions and page tables creation
(which is generic) from the MMU enablement (which is the only per-EL
configuration).

As a consequence, the call to the enable_mmu_elx() function has been
moved up into the plat_arch_setup() hook. Any other ARM standard
platforms that use the functions `arm_configure_mmu_elx()` must be
updated.

Change-Id: I6f12a20ce4e5187b3849a8574aac841a136de83d

It is up to the platform to implement the new plat_crash_print_regs macro to
report all relevant platform registers helpful for troubleshooting.

plat_crash_print_regs merges or calls previously defined plat_print_gic_regs
and plat_print_interconnect_regs macros for each existing platforms.

NOTE: THIS COMMIT REQUIRES ALL PLATFORMS THAT ENABLE THE `CRASH_REPORTING`
BUILD FLAG TO MIGRATE TO USE THE NEW `plat_crash_print_regs()` MACRO. BY
DEFAULT, `CRASH_REPORTING` IS ENABLED IN DEBUG BUILDS FOR ALL PLATFORMS.

Fixes: arm-software/tf-issues#373
Signed-off-by: Gerald Lejeune <gerald.lejeune@st.com>