There are many instances in ARM Trusted Firmware where control is
transferred to functions from which return isn't expected. Such jumps
are made using 'bl' instruction to provide the callee with the location
from which it was jumped to. Additionally, debuggers infer the caller by
examining where 'lr' register points to. If a 'bl' of the nature
described above falls at the end of an assembly function, 'lr' will be
left pointing to a location outside of the function range. This misleads
the debugger back trace.
This patch defines a 'no_ret' macro to be used when jumping to functions
from which return isn't expected. The macro ensures to use 'bl'
instruction for the jump, and also, for debug builds, places a 'nop'
instruction immediately thereafter (unless instructed otherwise) so as
to leave 'lr' pointing within the function range.
Change-Id: Ib34c69fc09197cfd57bc06e147cc8252910e01b0
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
Added a new platform porting function plat_panic_handler, to allow
platforms to handle unexpected error situations. It must be
implemented in assembly as it may be called before the C environment
is initialized. A default implementation is provided, which simply
spins.
Corrected all dead loops in generic code to call this function
instead. This includes the dead loop that occurs at the end of the
call to panic().
All unnecesary wfis from bl32/tsp/aarch64/tsp_exceptions.S have
been removed.
Change-Id: I67cb85f6112fa8e77bd62f5718efcef4173d8134
The Firmware Update (FWU) feature needs support for an optional
secure world image, BL2U, to allow additional secure world
initialization required by FWU, for example DDR initialization.
This patch adds generic framework support to create BL2U.
NOTE: A platform makefile must supply additional `BL2U_SOURCES`
to build the bl2u target. A subsequent patch adds bl2u
support for ARM platforms.
Change-Id: If2ce036199bb40b39b7f91a9332106bcd4e25413
Jeenu Viswambharan
Antonio Nino Diaz
Yatharth Kochar