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This patch enables BL2 to execute at the highest exception level
without any dependancy on TF BL1. This enables platforms which already
have a non-TF Boot ROM to directly load and execute BL2 and subsequent BL
stages without need for BL1.  This is not currently possible because
BL2 executes at S-EL1 and cannot jump straight to EL3.

Change-Id: Ief1efca4598560b1b8c8e61fbe26d1f44e929d69
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>

A new platform define, `PLAT_SP_IMAGE_XLAT_SECTION_NAME`, has been
introduced to select the section where the translation tables used by
the S-EL1/S-EL0 are placed.

This define has been used to move the translation tables to DRAM secured
by TrustZone.

Most of the extra needed space in BL31 when SPM is enabled is due to the
large size of the translation tables. By moving them to this memory
region we can save 44 KiB.

A new argument has been added to REGISTER_XLAT_CONTEXT2() to specify the
region where the translation tables have to be placed by the linker.

Change-Id: Ia81709b4227cb8c92601f0caf258f624c0467719
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

These macros are only defined for corresponding image,
and they are undefined for other images. It means that we have
to use ifdef or defined() instead of relying on being 0 by default.

Change-Id: Iad11efab9830ddf471599b46286e1c56581ef5a7
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>

Previously, in AArch32, `IMAGE_XLAT_DEFAULT_REGIME` wasn't defined. The
translation regime is only used in the AArch64 port of the translation
tables library v2, so this is not a problem for now, but future patches
will use it.

`IMAGE_EL` isn't used in AArch32, so it isn't needed to define it.

Change-Id: I4acdb01a58658956ab94bd82ed5b7fee1aa6ba90
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

This patch introduces the ability of the xlat tables library to manage
EL0 and EL1 mappings from a higher exception level.

Attributes MT_USER and MT_PRIVILEGED have been added to allow the user
specify the target EL in the translation regime EL1&0.

REGISTER_XLAT_CONTEXT2 macro is introduced to allow creating a
xlat_ctx_t that targets a given translation regime (EL1&0 or EL3).

A new member is added to xlat_ctx_t to represent the translation regime
the xlat_ctx_t manages. The execute_never mask member is removed as it
is computed from existing information.

Change-Id: I95e14abc3371d7a6d6a358cc54c688aa9975c110
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The current implementation of the memory mapping API favours mapping
memory regions using the biggest possible block size in order to
reduce the number of translation tables needed.

In some cases, this behaviour might not be desirable. When translation
tables are edited at run-time, coarse-grain mappings like that might
need splitting into finer-grain tables. This operation has a
performance cost.

The MAP_REGION2() macro allows to specify the granularity of
translation tables used for the initial mapping of a memory region.
This might increase performance for memory regions that are likely to
be edited in the future, at the expense of a potentially increased
memory footprint.

The Translation Tables Library Design Guide has been updated to
explain the use case for this macro. Also added a few intermediate
titles to make the guide easier to digest.

Change-Id: I04de9302e0ee3d326b8877043a9f638766b81b7b
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

At the moment, the translation context type (xlat_ctx_t) is a private
type reserved for the internal usage of the translation table library.
All exported APIs (implemented in xlat_tables_common.c) are wrappers
over the internal implementations that use such a translation context.

These wrappers unconditionally pass the current translation context
representing the memory mappings of the executing BL image. This means
that the caller has no control over which translation context the
library functions act on.

As a first step to make this code more flexible, this patch exports
the 'xlat_ctx_t' type. Note that, although the declaration of this type
is now public, its definition stays private. A macro is introduced to
statically allocate and initialize such a translation context.

The library now internally uses this macro to allocate the default
translation context for the running BL image.

Change-Id: Icece1cde4813fac19452c782b682c758142b1489
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>