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For affected CPUs, this approach enables the mitigation during EL3
initialization, following every PE reset. No mechanism is provided to
disable the mitigation at runtime.

This approach permanently mitigates the entire software stack and no
additional mitigation code is required in other software components.

TF-A implements this approach for the following affected CPUs:

*   Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72, by setting bit 55 (Disable load pass store) of
    `CPUACTLR_EL1` (`S3_1_C15_C2_0`).

*   Cortex-A73, by setting bit 3 of `S3_0_C15_C0_0` (not documented in the
    Technical Reference Manual (TRM)).

*   Cortex-A75, by setting bit 35 (reserved in TRM) of `CPUACTLR_EL1`
    (`S3_0_C15_C1_0`).

Additionally, a new SMC interface is implemented to allow software
executing in lower ELs to discover whether the system is mitigated
against CVE-2018-3639.

Refer to "Firmware interfaces for mitigating cache speculation
vulnerabilities System Software on Arm Systems"[0] for more
information.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/cache-speculation-vulnerability-firmware-specification



Change-Id: I084aa7c3bc7c26bf2df2248301270f77bed22ceb
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Only return -1 if the workaround for CVE-2017-5715 is not compiled in.

Change-Id: I1bd07c57d22b4a13cf51b35be141a1f1ffb065ff
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Update Arm Trusted Firmware references in the upstream documents to
Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A). This is for consistency with and
disambiguation from Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M).

Also update other Arm trademarks, e.g. ARM->Arm, ARMv8->Armv8-A.

Change-Id: I8bb0e18af29c6744eeea2dc6c08f2c10b20ede22
Signed-off-by: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by disabling
and enabling the MMU.  To achieve this without performing any branch
instruction, a per-cpu vbar is installed which executes the workaround
and then branches off to the corresponding vector entry in the main
vector table.  A side effect of this change is that the main vbar is
configured before any reset handling.  This is to allow the per-cpu
reset function to override the vbar setting.

This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs.

Change-Id: I97788d38463a5840a410e3cea85ed297a1678265
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Erratum 855971 applies to revision r0p3 or earlier Cortex-A72 CPUs. The
recommended workaround is to disable instruction prefetch.

Change-Id: I7fde74ee2a8a23b2a8a1891b260f0eb909fad4bf
Signed-off-by: Eleanor Bonnici <Eleanor.bonnici@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Erratum 855972 applies to revision r1p3 or earlier Cortex-A57 CPUs. The
recommended workaround is to disable instruction prefetch.

Change-Id: I56eeac0b753eb1432bd940083372ad6f7e93b16a
Signed-off-by: Eleanor Bonnici <Eleanor.bonnici@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Add documentation for errata 835769 and 843419 workarounds introduced in
commit a94cc374



Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#504

Change-Id: I7f3db53dfc5f3827b32663f483d3302bc9679b19
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

Due to recent issues in the rendering of the documentation on GitHub and
some long-standing issues like the lack of automatic table of content in
Markdown, the documentation has been converted to reStructuredText.
Basic constructs looks pretty similar to Markdown.

Automatically convert GitHub markdown documentation to reStructuredText
using pandoc.

Change-Id: If20b695acedc6d1b49c8d9fb64efd6b6ba23f4a9
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>