Jeenu Viswambharan
authored
In AArch64, privileged exception levels control the execution state (a.k.a. register width) of the immediate lower Exception Level; i.e. whether the lower exception level executes in AArch64 or AArch32 state. For an exception level to have its execution state changed at run time, it must request the change by raising a synchronous exception to the higher exception level. This patch implements and adds such a provision to the ARM SiP service, by which an immediate lower exception level can request to switch its execution state. The execution state is switched if the request is: - raised from non-secure world; - raised on the primary CPU, before any secondaries are brought online with CPU_ON PSCI call; - raised from an exception level immediately below EL3: EL2, if implemented; otherwise NS EL1. If successful, the SMC doesn't return to the caller, but to the entry point supplied with the call. Otherwise, the caller will observe the SMC r...