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The User Guide document has grown organically over time and
now covers a wide range of topics, making it difficult to
skim read and extract information from. Currently, it covers
these topics and maybe a couple more:

- Requirements (hardware, tools, libs)
- Checking out the repo
- Basic build instructions
- A comprehensive list of build flags
- FIP packaging
- Building specifically for Juno
- Firmware update images
- EL3 payloads
- Preloaded BL33 boot flow
- Running on FVPs
- Running on Juno

I have separated these out into a few groups that become new
documents. Broadly speaking, build instructions for the tools,
for TF-A generally, and for specific scenarios are separated.
Content relating to specific platforms (Juno and the FVPs are
Arm-specific platforms, essentially) has been moved into the
documentation that is specific to those platforms, under
docs/plat/arm.

Change-Id: Ica87c52d8cd4f577332be0b0738998ea3ba3bbec
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Tidying up a few Sphinx warnings that had built-up over time.
None of these are critical but it cleans up the Sphinx output.

At the same time, fixing some spelling errors that were detected.

Change-Id: I38209e235481eed287f8008c6de9dedd6b12ab2e
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Currently links between documents are using the format:

<path/to/><filename>.rst

This was required for services like GitHub because they render each
document in isolation - linking to another document is like linking
to any other file, just provide the full path.

However, with the new approach, the .rst files are only the raw
source for the documents. Once the documents have been rendered
the output is now in another format (HTML in our case) and so,
when linking to another document, the link must point to the
rendered version and not the .rst file.

The RST spec provides a few methods for linking between content.
The parent of this patch enabled the automatic creation of anchors
for document titles - we will use these anchors as the targets for
our links. Additional anchors can be added by hand if needed, on
section and sub-section titles, for example.

An example of this new format, for a document with the title
"Firmware Design" is :ref:`Firmware Design`.

One big advantage of this is that anchors are not dependent on
paths. We can then move documents around, even between directories,
without breaking any links between documents. Links will need to be
updated only if the title of a document changes.

Change-Id: I9e2340a61dd424cbd8fd1ecc2dc166f460d81703
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This PSCI hook is similar to pwr_domain_on_finish but is
guaranteed to be invoked with the respective core and cluster are
participating in coherency. This will be necessary to safely invoke
the new GICv3 API which modifies shared GIC data structures concurrently.

Change-Id: I8e54f05c9d4ef5712184c9c18ba45ac97a29eb7a
Signed-off-by: Madhukar Pappireddy <madhukar.pappireddy@arm.com>

The block size of some storage device is 4096-byte long, such as UFS. But
PARTITION_BLOCK_SIZE is defined as 512-byte long. So replace it by
PLAT_PARTITION_BLOCK_SIZE. Make it configurable in platform.
Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iada05f7c646d0a0f2c0d3b8545540b3cb7153de3

This patch provides the following features and makes modifications
listed below:
- Individual APIAKey key generation for each CPU.
- New key generation on every BL31 warm boot and TSP CPU On event.
- Per-CPU storage of APIAKey added in percpu_data[]
  of cpu_data structure.
- `plat_init_apiakey()` function replaced with `plat_init_apkey()`
  which returns 128-bit value and uses Generic timer physical counter
  value to increase the randomness of the generated key.
  The new function can be used for generation of all ARMv8.3-PAuth keys
- ARMv8.3-PAuth specific code placed in `lib\extensions\pauth`.
- New `pauth_init_enable_el1()` and `pauth_init_enable_el3()` functions
  generate, program and enable APIAKey_EL1 for EL1 and EL3 respectively;
  pauth_disable_el1()` and `pauth_disable_el3()` functions disable
  PAuth for EL1 and EL3 respectively;
  `pauth_load_bl31_apiakey()` loads saved per-CPU APIAKey_EL1 from
  cpu-data structure.
- Combined `save_gp_pauth_registers()` function replaces calls to
  `save_gp_registers()` and `pauth_context_save()`;
  `restore_gp_pauth_registers()` replaces `pauth_context_restore()`
  and `restore_gp_registers()` calls.
- `restore_gp_registers_eret()` function removed with corresponding
  code placed in `el3_exit()`.
- Fixed the issue when `pauth_t pauth_ctx` structure allocated space
  for 12 uint64_t PAuth registers instead of 10 by removal of macro
  CTX_PACGAKEY_END from `include/lib/el3_runtime/aarch64/context.h`
  and assigning its value to CTX_PAUTH_REGS_END.
- Use of MODE_SP_ELX and MODE_SP_EL0 macro definitions
  in `msr	spsel`  instruction instead of hard-coded values.
- Changes in documentation related to ARMv8.3-PAuth and ARMv8.5-BTI.

Change-Id: Id18b81cc46f52a783a7e6a09b9f149b6ce803211
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

Add uml sequence and class diagram to illustrate the behavior of the
storage abstraction layer.

Change-Id: I338262729f8034cc3d3eea1d0ce19cca973a91bb
Signed-off-by: Louis Mayencourt <louis.mayencourt@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ib021c721652d96f6c06ea18741f19a72bba1d00f
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

The documentation contains plenty of notes and warnings. Enable
special rendering of these blocks by converting the note prefix
into a .. note:: annotation.

Change-Id: I34e26ca6bf313d335672ab6c2645741900338822
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

One of the current issues with the documentation is that terms and
abbreviations are frequently redefined. For example, we might have
a sentence like "... the SCP (System Control Processor) will ...".

These definitions might be repeated several times across pages, or
even within the same document. Equally, some of these abbreviations
are missed and are never expanded.

Sphinx provides a :term: keyword that takes some text and,
if that text is defined in a glossary document, links to its glossary
entry. Using this functionality will prevent repeated definitions
and will make the docs more maintainable by using a single
definition source.

The glossary added in this patch was created from a quick scrub of
the source code - there may be missing entries. The SDEI abbreviation
was used as an example.

Note that a global_substitutions file was created. This file contains
the RST 'replace' statements that convert plain text terms into linked
terms (by adding the ':term:' keyword to them). An example is:

.. |TF-A| replace:: :term:`TF-A`

The 'rst_prolog' variable in conf.py is used to inject this list of
replacements into each page. Terms must be surrounded with the pipe
character to be turned into links - this means that we can still
prevent certain terms from being linked if we don't want them to be.

Change-Id: I87010ed9cfa4a60011a9b4a431b98cb4bb7baa28
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

These are no longer needed as there will always be a table of contents
rendered to the left of every page.

Some of these lists can be quite long and, when opening a page, the
reader sees nothing but a huge list of contents! After this patch,
the document contents are front-and-centre and the contents are
nicely rendered in the sidebar without duplication.

Change-Id: I444754d548ec91d00f2b04e861de8dde8856aa62
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This patch attempts to standardise the document titles as well as
adding titles to documents that were missing one. The aim is to
remove needless references to "TF-A" or "Trusted Firmware" in the
title of every document and to make sure that the title matches
with the document content.

Change-Id: I9b93ccf43b5d57e8dc793a5311b8ed7c4dd245cc
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This change creates the following directories under docs/
in order to provide a grouping for the content:

- components
- design
- getting_started
- perf
- process

In each of these directories an index.rst file is created
and this serves as an index / landing page for each of the
groups when the pages are compiled. Proper layout of the
top-level table of contents relies on this directory/index
structure.

Without this patch it is possible to build the documents
correctly with Sphinx but the output looks messy because
there is no overall hierarchy.

Change-Id: I3c9f4443ec98571a56a6edf775f2c8d74d7f429f
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

The implementation of the heap function plat_get_mbedtls_heap() becomes
mandatory for platforms supporting TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT.

The shared Mbed TLS heap default weak function implementation is
converted to a helper function get_mbedtls_heap_helper() which can be
used by the platforms for their own function implementation.

Change-Id: Ic8f2994e25e3d9fcd371a21ac459fdcafe07433e
Signed-off-by: Ambroise Vincent <ambroise.vincent@arm.com>

Fix some typos and clarify some sentences.

Change-Id: Id276d1ced9a991b4eddc5c47ad9a825e6b29ef74
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The previous commit added the infrastructure to load and save
ARMv8.3-PAuth registers during Non-secure <-> Secure world switches, but
didn't actually enable pointer authentication in the firmware.

This patch adds the functionality needed for platforms to provide
authentication keys for the firmware, and a new option (ENABLE_PAUTH) to
enable pointer authentication in the firmware itself. This option is
disabled by default, and it requires CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS to be
enabled.

Change-Id: I35127ec271e1198d43209044de39fa712ef202a5
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Platforms are not allowed to use any file inside include/plat/arm or
plat/arm to prevent dependencies between Arm platforms and non-Arm
platforms.

Change-Id: I6dc336ab71134c8d2758761fac0e4716e2d7e6ff
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Using Sphinx linkcheck on the TF-A docs revealed some broken
or permanently-redirected links. These have been updated where
possible.

Change-Id: Ie1fead47972ede3331973759b50ee466264bd2ee
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Fix links to SCC and FreeBSD. Direct links do not need any special
formatting.

Change-Id: I00f7343d029a30ec02dfaa0ef393b3197260cab9
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Replace all occurences of escaped underscore characters by plain ones.
This makes the text version of the porting guide easier to read and
grep into.

Change-Id: I7bf3b292b686be4c6d847a467b6708ac16544c90
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Also, update platform_def.h guidelines about includes in the porting
guide.

Change-Id: I1ae338c9dd3242b309f6d53687ba2cb755d488c3
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Commit ed51b51f

 ("Remove build option LOAD_IMAGE_V2") intended
to remove all code related to LOAD_IMAGE_V2=0 but missed a few things.

Change-Id: I16aaf52779dd4af1e134e682731328c5f1e5d622
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Corrects typos in core code, documentation files, drivers, Arm
platforms and services.

None of the corrections affect code; changes are limited to comments
and other documentation.

Change-Id: I5c1027b06ef149864f315ccc0ea473e2a16bfd1d
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Crash reporting via the default consoles registered by MULTI_CONSOLE_API
has been broken since commit d35cc347

 (Console: Use callee-saved
registers), which was introduced to allow console drivers written in C.
It's not really possible with the current crash reporting framework to
support console drivers in C, however we should make sure that the
existing assembly drivers that do support crash reporting continue to
work through the MULTI_CONSOLE_API.

This patch fixes the problem by creating custom console_putc() and
console_flush() implementations for the crash reporting case that do not
use the stack. Platforms that want to use this feature will have to link
plat/common/aarch64/crash_console_helpers.S explicitly.

Also update the documentation to better reflect the new reality (of this
being an option rather than the expected default for most platforms).

Change-Id: Id0c761e5e2fddaf25c277bc7b8ab603946ca73cb
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>

Change-Id: Ibf2b21b12ebc0af5815fc6643532a3be9100bf02
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Platforms that wish to use the sample functions have to add the file to
their Makefile. It is not included by default.

Change-Id: I713617bb58dc218967199248f68da86241d7ec40
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Change-Id: I9d14faa7294578443233b84d5459fa7b62a30c07
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Information regarding platform compatibility policy
is added to the documentation.

Change-Id: If9f2a11160f81354ee2c678f0fca9d67fc7366e6
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Change-Id: I69e2720f534583a0f8d0e44f2e7b6f393f6fd093
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Change-Id: I83de2ae3e0795e6fec3c1e5b37c441b64b0c9cb6
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Change-Id: I40d040aa05bcbf11536a96ce59827711456b93a8
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

This patch introduces the shared Mbed TLS heap optimisation for Arm
platforms. The objective is the Mbed TLS heap to be shared between BL1
and BL2 so as to not allocate the heap memory twice. To achieve that,
the patch introduces all the necessary helpers for implementing this
optimisation. It also applies it for FVP.

Change-Id: I6d85eaa1361517b7490956b2ac50f5fa0d0bb008
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

The Mbed TLS drivers, in order to work, need a heap for internal usage.
This heap, instead of being directly referenced by the drivers, now it
is being accessed indirectly through a pointer. Also, the heap, instead
of being part of the drivers, now it is being received through the
plat_get_mbedtls_heap() function. This function requests a heap from the
current BL image which utilises the Mbed TLS drivers.

Those changes create the opportunity for the Mbed TLS heap to be shared
among different images, thus saving memory. A default heap
implementation is provided but it can be overridden by a platform
specific, optimised implemenetation.

Change-Id: I286a1f10097a9cdcbcd312201eea576c18d157fa
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Taken from http://git.simple-cc.org/scc/

 from the following commit:

67508ad14af314cea2229783d3c084f28c41daf0

Permission has been granted from the author to use them under the
license BSD-3-Clause instead of ISC.

Change-Id: I65c0ce3ab60c49d34a57533af12a74bd7bde88e5
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Change-Id: Id2639218dfffec84d8b0fa295d7e896129d4fcd7
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Change-Id: I76cb1d387ab51ee48fa91fd7458c7041b454ceee
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Having an active stack while enabling MMU has shown coherency problems.
This patch builds on top of translation library changes that introduces
MMU-enabling without using stacks.

Previously, with HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY, data caches were disabled while
enabling MMU only because of active stack. Now that we can enable MMU
without using stack, we can enable both MMU and data caches at the same
time.

NOTE: Since this feature depends on using translation table library v2,
disallow using translation table library v1 with HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#566

Change-Id: Ie55aba0c23ee9c5109eb3454cb8fa45d74f8bbb2
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

In the porting guide, there are blue boxes that describe the argument
types and the return type of each function.  A small typo caused some of
these boxes not being properly rendered.

In the user guide, small typos were fixed that caused random text being
unintentionally rendered as bold.  Also, a slight rewording was done in
the section describing the DYN_DISABLE_AUTH flag.

Change-Id: I57303ca609436a82162fa9b42c06b0d5a63da6df
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

In the porting guide, fix the function name and the argument type to
reflect the code.

Change-Id: Iac8d69af403194de5586bc0d5890da531e3c8da2
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

In some use-cases BL2 will be stored in eXecute In Place (XIP) memory,
like BL1. In these use-cases, it is necessary to initialize the RW sections
in RAM, while leaving the RO sections in place. This patch enable this
use-case with a new build option, BL2_IN_XIP_MEM. For now, this option
is only supported when BL2_AT_EL3 is 1.
Signed-off-by: Jiafei Pan <Jiafei.Pan@nxp.com>