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Docs: Clarify IRQ/FIQ handler API in Interrupt Design Guide 

The API description currently states that interrupt handlers
(interrupt_type_handler_t pointers) SHOULD return a pointer
to the target cpu_context.

This patch rewords the description of the interrupts handlers to state
that it MUST return a pointer to the target security context. It also
warns about potential portability issue. Specifically, this pointer is
not used on AArch64 and calls to context library APIs must be used to
ask BL31 to return to a specific context. However, this could change in
the future and interrupt handlers must always return the pointer.

Change-Id: I3f82a046de4d7a5b51a8cbebe7eb2a00dbbdb4f0
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
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Douglas Raillard 2016-11-09 14:02:13 +00:00
parent 90d2956aea
commit 94a8ca24cb
1 changed files with 22 additions and 16 deletions
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@ -358,10 +358,16 @@ The `handle` parameter points to the `cpu_context` structure of the current CPU
for the security state specified in the `flags` parameter.
Once the handler routine completes, execution will return to either the secure
or non-secure state. The handler routine should return a pointer to
`cpu_context` structure of the current CPU for the target security state. It
should treat all error conditions as critical errors and take appropriate action
within its implementation e.g. use assertion failures.
or non-secure state. The handler routine must return a pointer to
`cpu_context` structure of the current CPU for the target security state. On
AArch64, this return value is currently ignored by the caller as the
appropriate `cpu_context` to be used is expected to be set by the handler
via the context management library APIs.
A portable interrupt handler implementation must set the target context both in
the structure pointed to by the returned pointer and via the context management
library APIs. The handler should treat all error conditions as critical errors
and take appropriate action within its implementation e.g. use assertion
failures.
The runtime firmware provides the following API for registering a handler for a
particular type of interrupt. A Secure Payload Dispatcher service should use