If a firmware component like TF-A reserves special memory regions for
its own or secure payload services, it should announce the location and
size of those regions to the non-secure world. This will avoid
disappointment when some rich OS tries to acccess this memory, which
will likely end in a crash.
The traditional way of advertising reserved memory using device tree is
using the special memreserve feature of the device tree blob (DTB).
However by definition those regions mentioned there do not prevent the
rich OS to map this memory, which may lead to speculative accesses to
this memory and hence spurious bus errors.
A safer way of carving out memory is to use the /reserved-memory node as
part of the normal DT structure. Besides being easier to setup, this
also defines an explicit "no-map" property to signify the secure-only
nature of certain memory regions, which avoids the rich OS to
accidentally step on it.
Add a helper function to allow platform ports to easily add a region.
Change-Id: I2b92676cf48fd3bdacda05b5c6b1c7952ebed68c
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
The QEMU platform port scans its device tree to advertise PSCI as the
CPU enable method. It does this by scanning *every* node in the DT and
check whether its compatible string starts with "arm,cortex-a". Then it
sets the enable-method to PSCI, if it doesn't already have one.
Other platforms might want to use this functionality as well, so let's
move it out of the QEMU platform directory and make it more robust by
fixing some shortcomings:
- A compatible string starting with a certain prefix is not a good way
to find the CPU nodes. For instance a "arm,cortex-a72-pmu" node will
match as well and is in turn favoured with an enable-method.
- If the DT already has an enable-method, we won't change this to PSCI.
Those two issues will for instance fail on the Raspberry Pi 4 DT.
To fix those problems, we adjust the scanning method:
The DT spec says that all CPU nodes are subnodes of the mandatory
/cpus node, which is a subnode of the root node. Also each CPU node has
to have a device_type = "cpu" property. So we find the /cpus node, then
scan for a subnode with the proper device_type, forcing the
enable-method to "psci".
We have to restart this search after a property has been patched, as the
node offsets might have changed meanwhile.
This allows this routine to be reused for the Raspberry Pi 4 later.
Change-Id: I00cae16cc923d9f8bb96a9b2a2933b9a79b06139
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Andre Przywara