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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>

Make the spinlock implementation use ARMv8.1-LSE CAS instruction based
on a platform build option. The CAS-based implementation used to be
unconditionally selected for all ARM8.1+ platforms.

The previous CAS spinlock implementation had a bug wherein the spin_unlock()
implementation had an `sev` after `stlr` which is not sufficient. A dsb is
needed to ensure that the stlr completes prior to the sev. Having a dsb is
heavyweight and a better solution would be to use load exclusive semantics
to monitor the lock and wake up from wfe when a store happens to the lock.
The patch implements the same.

Change-Id: I5283ce4a889376e4cc01d1b9d09afa8229a2e522
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez@arm.com>

A new build flag, CTX_INCLUDE_MTE_REGS, has been added; this patch adds
documentation for it in the User Guide along with instructions of what
different values mean.

Change-Id: I430a9c6ced06b1b6be317edbeff4f5530e30f63a
Signed-off-by: Justin Chadwell <justin.chadwell@arm.com>

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

This patch adds the functionality needed for platforms to provide
Branch Target Identification (BTI) extension, introduced to AArch64
in Armv8.5-A by adding BTI instruction used to mark valid targets
for indirect branches. The patch sets new GP bit [50] to the stage 1
Translation Table Block and Page entries to denote guarded EL3 code
pages which will cause processor to trap instructions in protected
pages trying to perform an indirect branch to any instruction other
than BTI.
BTI feature is selected by BRANCH_PROTECTION option which supersedes
the previous ENABLE_PAUTH used for Armv8.3-A Pointer Authentication
and is disabled by default. Enabling BTI requires compiler support
and was tested with GCC versions 9.0.0, 9.0.1 and 10.0.0.
The assembly macros and helpers are modified to accommodate the BTI
instruction.
This is an experimental feature.
Note. The previous ENABLE_PAUTH build option to enable PAuth in EL3
is now made as an internal flag and BRANCH_PROTECTION flag should be
used instead to enable Pointer Authentication.
Note. USE_LIBROM=1 option is currently not supported.

Change-Id: Ifaf4438609b16647dc79468b70cd1f47a623362e
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@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>

Change-Id: I679d1499376a524bef1cfc33df995b0a719b5ac8
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Several code blocks do not specify a language for syntax
highlighting. This results in Sphinx using a default highlighter
which is Python.

This patch adds the correct language to each code block that doesn't
already specify it.

Change-Id: Icce1949aabfdc11a334a42d49edf55fa673cddc3
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>

Change-Id: Iafa79b6f7891d3eebec9908a8f7725131202beb3
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Declare ENABLE_PAUTH and CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS
build options as experimental.
Pointer Authentication is enabled for Non-secure world
irrespective of the value of these build flags if the
CPU supports it.
The patch also fixes the description of fiptool 'help' command.

Change-Id: I46de3228fbcce774a2624cd387798680d8504c38
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

Change-Id: I56ea088f415bdb9077c385bd3450ff4b2cfa2eac
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

Keeping that in the docs is a bit untidy

Change-Id: Ia95246208cee48df1536b4317a8c896ab2c84fc2
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@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>

ARMv8.3-PAuth adds functionality that supports address authentication of
the contents of a register before that register is used as the target of
an indirect branch, or as a load.

This feature is supported only in AArch64 state.

This feature is mandatory in ARMv8.3 implementations.

This feature adds several registers to EL1. A new option called
CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS has been added to select if the TF needs to save
them during Non-secure <-> Secure world switches. This option must be
enabled if the hardware has the registers or the values will be leaked
during world switches.

To prevent leaks, this patch also disables pointer authentication in the
Secure world if CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS is 0. Any attempt to use it will
be trapped in EL3.

Change-Id: I27beba9907b9a86c6df1d0c5bf6180c972830855
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Change-Id: I2b75be16f452a8ab7c2445ccd519fb057a135812
Co-authored-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Commit 2559b2c8

 ("xlat v2: Dynamically detect need for CnP bit")
modified the code to convert the compile-time check for ARMv8.2-TTCNP to
a runtime check, but forgot to update the documentation associated to it.

Change-Id: I6d33a4de389d976dbdcce65d8fdf138959530669
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@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>

Change-Id: I915303cea787d9fb188428b98ac6cfc610cc4470
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

On ARM platforms, the BL2 memory can be overlaid by BL31/BL32. The memory
descriptors describing the list of executable images are created in BL2
R/W memory, which could be possibly corrupted later on by BL31/BL32 due
to overlay. This patch creates a reserved location in SRAM for these
descriptors and are copied over by BL2 before handing over to next BL
image.

Also this patch increases the PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL2_SIZE for juno when TBBR
is enabled.

Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#626

Change-Id: I755735706fa702024b4032f51ed4895b3687377f
Signed-off-by: Sathees Balya <sathees.balya@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>

Change-Id: I77d38758d18ba6dda1652b1b1e644fbfb14386cc
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Pointer authentication is an Armv8.3 feature that introduces
instructions that can be used to authenticate and verify pointers.

Pointer authentication instructions are allowed to be accessed from all
ELs but only when EL3 explicitly allows for it; otherwise, their usage
will trap to EL3. Since EL3 doesn't have trap handling in place, this
patch unconditionally disables all related traps to EL3 to avoid
potential misconfiguration leading to an unhandled EL3 exception.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#629

Change-Id: I9bd2efe0dc714196f503713b721ffbf05672c14d
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

This patch introduces a build flag "RECLAIM_INIT_CODE" to mark boot time
code which allows platforms to place this memory in an appropriate
section to be reclaimed later. This features is primarily targeted for
BL31. Appropriate documentation updates are also done.

Change-Id: If0ca062851614805d769c332c771083d46599194
Signed-off-by: Daniel Boulby <daniel.boulby@arm.com>

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

Change-Id: I567a406edb090ae9d109382f6874846a79dd7473
Co-authored-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The code of LOAD_IMAGE_V2=0 has been removed.

Change-Id: Iea03e5bebb90c66889bdb23f85c07d0c9717fffe
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Currenly the CNTFRQ register and system timer is initialized in BL31 for
use by the normal world. During firmware update, the NS-BL1 or NS-BL2U
may need to access the system timer. Hence this patch duplicates the
CNTFRQ and system timer initialization in BL1 as well.
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Change-Id: I1ede78b4ae64080fb418cb93f3e48b26d7b724dc

For the BL2_AT_EL3 configuration, move BL2 higher up to make more
space for BL31.  Adjust the BL31 limit to be up to BL2 base.  This is
because BL2 is always resident for the BL2_AT_EL3 configuration and
thus we cannot overlay it with BL31.

Change-Id: I71e89863ed48f5159e8b619f49c7c73b253397aa
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

This patch updates the firmware design guide for the BL memory
layout change on ARM platforms.

Change-Id: Icbfe7249484bb8b4ba3c94421172d42f27605c52
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@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 updates the `firmware-design.rst` document for
changes in ARM-TF for supporting dynamic configuration features
as presented in `Secure Firmware BoF SFO'17`[1].

The patch also updates the user-guide for 2 build options for FVP
pertaining to dynamic config.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/bof-device-tree-and-secure-firmware-bof-sfo17310



Change-Id: Ic099cf41e7f1a98718c39854e6286d884011d445
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

The CnP bit documentation in the Firmware Design Guide incorrectly
used the term "Page Entries" instead of "Processing Elements".
Fix that.

Change-Id: Ie44ee99c281b7b1a9ad90fba2c7d109f12425507
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Update firmware-design.rst, porting-guide.rst and user-guide.rst
with the information about BL2 at EL3. Firmware-design.rst is
also update to explain how to test this feauture with FVP.

Change-Id: I86d64bc64594e13eb041cea9cefa3f7f3fa745bd
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>

Change-Id: I2e29a63f08aed3b8ea0bb10170a3d55b8d033e62
Signed-off-by: Jett Zhou <jett.zhou@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

The FPEXC32_EL2 register controls SIMD and FP functionality when the
lower ELs are executing in AArch32 mode. It is architecturally mapped
to AArch32 system register FPEXC.

This patch removes FPEXC32_EL2 register from the System Register context
and adds it to the floating-point context. EL3 only saves / restores the
floating-point context if the build option CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS is set to 1.

The rationale for this change is that if the Secure world is using FP
functionality and EL3 is not managing the FP context, then the Secure
world will save / restore the appropriate FP registers.

NOTE - this is a break in behaviour in the unlikely case that
CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS is set to 0 and the platform contains an AArch32
Secure Payload that modifies FPEXC, but does not save and restore
this register

Change-Id: Iab80abcbfe302752d52b323b4abcc334b585c184
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

External build environment shall sets directive ARM_ARCH_MAJOR to 7
to specify a target ARMv7-A core.

As ARM-TF expects AARCH to be set, ARM_ARCH_MAJOR==7 mandates
AARCH=aarch32.

The toolchain target architecture/cpu is delegated after the platform
configuration is parsed. Platform shall define target core through
ARM_CORTEX_A<x>=yes, <x> being 5, 7, 9, 12, 15 and/or 17.

Platform can bypass ARM_CORTEX_A<x>=yes directive and provide straight
the toolchain target directive through MARCH32_DIRECTIVE.
Signed-off-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@linaro.org>