As per change [1], now HW_CONFIG gets loaded in secure and
non-secure memory. Hence updated the documentation to show
secure and non-secure load region of HW_CONFIG in FVP Arm
platform.
Additionally, added a note on how FW_CONFIG address gets
passed from BL2 to BL31/SP_MIN.
[1]: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/14620
Change-Id: I37e02ff4f433c87bccbe67c7df5ecde3017668b9
Signed-off-by: Manish V Badarkhe <Manish.Badarkhe@arm.com>
This patch expands the RME documentation with description of TF-A
changes for RME. It also modifies some other parts of TF-A documentation
to account for RME changes.
Signed-off-by: Zelalem Aweke <zelalem.aweke@arm.com>
Change-Id: I9e6feeee235f0ba4b767d239f15840f1e0c540bb
there are features which are marked as experimental even though they
are stable and used for quite some time.
Following features are no longer marked as experimental
- SPMD
- MEASURED_BOOT
- FCONF and associated build flags
- DECRYPTION_SUPPORT and associated build flags
- ENABLE_PAUTH
- ENABLE_BTI
- USE_SPINLOCK_CAS
- GICv3 Multichip support
Signed-off-by: Manish Pandey <manish.pandey2@arm.com>
Change-Id: I4bb653d9c413c66095ec31f0b8aefeb13ea04ee9
To avoid trapping from EL0/1, FPEN bits need to be set 0x3, not
clearing.
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Change-Id: Ic34e9aeb876872883c5f040618ed6d50f21dacd0
These broken links were found with the help of this command:
$> sphinx-build -M linkcheck . build
A sample broken link is reported as follows:
(line 80) -local- firmware-design.rst#secure-el1-payloads-and-dispatchers
Change-Id: I5dcefdd4b8040908658115647e957f6c2c5da7c2
Signed-off-by: Madhukar Pappireddy <madhukar.pappireddy@arm.com>
The link to the exception handling framework page on the System Design /
Firmware Design / Section 4.3 just links to itself, so I changed it to
link to the exception handling framework component document.
Signed-off-by: John Powell <john.powell@arm.com>
Change-Id: I6711b423a789b2b3d1921671e8497fffa8ba33d1
Captured the increase in firmware configuration area from
4KB to 8kB in memory layout document. Updated the documentation
to provide details about fw_config separately.
Signed-off-by: Manish V Badarkhe <Manish.Badarkhe@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ifbec443ced479301be65827b49ff4fe447e9109f
This is a fixup for patch 3ba55a3c5f
("docs: Update SMCCC doc, other changes for release"), where some
links names got changed but their references didn't.
Change-Id: I980d04dde338f3539a2ec1ae2e807440587b1cf5
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
To accommodate the increasing size of the SCP_BL2 binary, the base
address of the memory region allocated to SCP_BL2 has been moved
downwards from its current (mostly) arbitrary address to the beginning
of the non-shared trusted SRAM.
Change-Id: I086a3765bf3ea88f45525223d765dc0dbad6b434
Signed-off-by: Chris Kay <chris.kay@arm.com>
This patch provides a fix for incorrect crash dump data for
lower EL when TF-A is built with HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST=1 option
which enables routing of External Aborts and SErrors to EL3.
Change-Id: I9d5e6775e6aad21db5b78362da6c3a3d897df977
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>
This patch adds information on the PMU configuration registers
and security considerations related to the PMU.
Signed-off-by: Petre-Ionut Tudor <petre-ionut.tudor@arm.com>
Change-Id: I36b15060b9830a77d3f47f293c0a6dafa3c581fb
Some platforms are extremely memory constrained and must split BL31
between multiple non-contiguous areas in SRAM. Allow the NOBITS
sections (.bss, stacks, page tables, and coherent memory) to be placed
in a separate region of RAM from the loaded firmware image.
Because the NOBITS region may be at a lower address than the rest of
BL31, __RW_{START,END}__ and __BL31_{START,END}__ cannot include this
region, or el3_entrypoint_common would attempt to invalidate the dcache
for the entire address space. New symbols __NOBITS_{START,END}__ are
added when SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION is enabled, and the dcached for the
NOBITS region is invalidated separately.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Change-Id: Idedfec5e4dbee77e94f2fdd356e6ae6f4dc79d37
The User Guide document has grown organically over time and
now covers a wide range of topics, making it difficult to
skim read and extract information from. Currently, it covers
these topics and maybe a couple more:
- Requirements (hardware, tools, libs)
- Checking out the repo
- Basic build instructions
- A comprehensive list of build flags
- FIP packaging
- Building specifically for Juno
- Firmware update images
- EL3 payloads
- Preloaded BL33 boot flow
- Running on FVPs
- Running on Juno
I have separated these out into a few groups that become new
documents. Broadly speaking, build instructions for the tools,
for TF-A generally, and for specific scenarios are separated.
Content relating to specific platforms (Juno and the FVPs are
Arm-specific platforms, essentially) has been moved into the
documentation that is specific to those platforms, under
docs/plat/arm.
Change-Id: Ica87c52d8cd4f577332be0b0738998ea3ba3bbec
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
From AArch64 state, arguments are passed in registers W0-W7(X0-X7)
and results are returned in W0-W7(X0-X7) for SMC32(SMC64) calls.
From AArch32 state, arguments are passed in registers R0-R7 and
results are returned in registers R0-R7 for SMC32 calls.
Most of the functions and macros already existed to support using
upto 8 registers for passing/returning parameters/results. Added
few helper macros for SMC calls from AArch32 state.
Link to the specification:
https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0028/c
Change-Id: I87976b42454dc3fc45c8343e9640aa78210e9741
Signed-off-by: Madhukar Pappireddy <madhukar.pappireddy@arm.com>
Tidying up a few Sphinx warnings that had built-up over time.
None of these are critical but it cleans up the Sphinx output.
At the same time, fixing some spelling errors that were detected.
Change-Id: I38209e235481eed287f8008c6de9dedd6b12ab2e
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
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>
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>
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>
Manish V Badarkhe
Zelalem Aweke
Manish Pandey
Peng Fan
Madhukar Pappireddy
johpow01
Sandrine Bailleux
laurenw-arm
Chris Kay
Alexei Fedorov
Petre-Ionut Tudor
Samuel Holland
Paul Beesley
Soby Mathew
Justin Chadwell
John Tsichritzis