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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>

Change-Id: I679d1499376a524bef1cfc33df995b0a719b5ac8
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>

Just like has been done in the porting guide a couple of patches
earlier, kill all escaped underscore characters in all documents.

Change-Id: I7fb5b806412849761d9221a6ce3cbd95ec43d611
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Update documentation to reflect the current state of the library.

Change-Id: Ic72f90ee322d2ebd6ea7f4296315700d6bc434e6
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The values defined in this type are used in logical operations, which
goes against MISRA Rule 10.1: "Operands shall not be of an inappropriate
essential type".

Now, `unsigned int` is used instead. This also allows us to move the
dynamic mapping bit from 30 to 31. It was an undefined behaviour in the
past because an enum is signed by default, and bit 31 corresponds to the
sign bit. It is undefined behaviour to modify the sign bit. Now, bit 31
is free to use as it was originally meant to be.

mmap_attr_t is now defined as an `unsigned int` for backwards
compatibility.

Change-Id: I6b31218c14b9c7fdabebe432de7fae6e90a97f34
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@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>

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>

The documentation describes the design of the translation tables
library version 2 used by the ARM Trusted Firmware.

The diagram file has been created with Dia version 0.97.2. This tool
can be obtained from: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/Download



Inkscape has been used to generate the *.png file from the *.dia file
to work around a bug in the generation of *.png files in some versions
of Dia.

Change-Id: Ie67d9998d4ae881b2c060200a318ad3ac2fa5e91
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>