This patch modifies the prototype of the bl1_plat_prepare_exit()
platform API to pass the address of the entry point info structure
received from BL2. The structure contains information that can be
useful, depending on the kind of clean up or bookkeeping operations
to perform.
The weak implementation of this function ignores this argument to
preserve platform backwards compatibility.
NOTE: THIS PATCH MAY BREAK PLATFORM PORTS THAT ARE RELYING ON THE
FORMER PROTOTYPE OF THE BL1_PLAT_PREPARE_EXIT() API.
Change-Id: I3fc18f637de06c85719c4ee84c85d6a4572a0fdb
This patch introduces a new build flag, SPIN_ON_BL1_EXIT, which
puts an infinite loop in BL1. It is intended to help debugging
the post-BL2 phase of the Trusted Firmware by stopping execution
in BL1 just before handing over to BL31. At this point, the
developer may take control of the target using a debugger.
This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by
rebuilding BL1 with SPIN_ON_BL1_EXIT=1.
User Guide updated accordingly.
Change-Id: I6b6779d5949c9e5571dd371255520ef1ac39685c
- Remove out-dated information about the use of printf() in the
function comment.
- Make the argument const, as the function doesn't need to modify it.
- Rename the function into bl1_print_bl31_ep_info() to make its
purpose clearer.
Change-Id: I2a9d215a37f0ec11aefce0c5c9e050473b7a6b25
This patch adds an optional API to the platform port:
void bl1_plat_prepare_exit(void);
This function is called prior to exiting BL1 in response to the
RUN_IMAGE_SMC request raised by BL2. It should be used to perform
platform specific clean up or bookkeeping operations before
transferring control to the next image.
A weak empty definition of this function has been provided to
preserve platform backwards compatibility.
Change-Id: Iec09697de5c449ae84601403795cdb6aca166ba1
The AArch64 synchronous exception vector code in BL1 is almost
reaching its architectural limit of 32 instructions. This means
there is very little space for this code to grow.
This patch reduces the size of the exception vector code by
moving most of its code in a function to which we branch from
SynchronousExceptionA64.
Change-Id: Ib35351767a685fb2c2398029d32e54026194f7ed
This patch gathers miscellaneous minor fixes to the documentation, and comments
in the source code.
Change-Id: I631e3dda5abafa2d90f464edaee069a1e58b751b
Co-Authored-By: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>
This patch disables routing of external aborts from lower exception levels to
EL3 and ensures that a SError interrupt generated as a result of execution in
EL3 is taken locally instead of a lower exception level.
The SError interrupt is enabled in the TSP code only when the operation has not
been directly initiated by the normal world. This is to prevent the possibility
of an asynchronous external abort which originated in normal world from being
taken when execution is in S-EL1.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#153
Change-Id: I157b996c75996d12fd86d27e98bc73dd8bce6cd5
This patch is based on spec published at
https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues/133
It rearranges the bl31_args struct into
bl31_params and bl31_plat_params which provide the
information needed for Trusted firmware and platform
specific data via x0 and x1
On the FVP platform BL3-1 params and BL3-1 plat params
and its constituents are stored at the start of TZDRAM.
The information about memory availability and size for
BL3-1, BL3-2 and BL3-3 is moved into platform specific data.
Change-Id: I8b32057a3d0dd3968ea26c2541a0714177820da9
This patch reworks the handover interface from: BL1 to BL2 and
BL2 to BL3-1. It removes the raise_el(), change_el(), drop_el()
and run_image() functions as they catered for code paths that were
never exercised.
BL1 calls bl1_run_bl2() to jump into BL2 instead of doing the same
by calling run_image(). Similarly, BL2 issues the SMC to transfer
execution to BL3-1 through BL1 directly. Only x0 and x1 are used
to pass arguments to BL31. These arguments and parameters for
running BL3-1 are passed through a reference to a
'el_change_info_t' structure. They were being passed value in
general purpose registers earlier.
Change-Id: Id4fd019a19a9595de063766d4a66295a2c9307e1
Instead of using the system register helper functions to read
or write system registers, assembler coded functions should
use MRS/MSR instructions. This results in faster and more
compact code.
This change replaces all usage of the helper functions with
direct register accesses.
Change-Id: I791d5f11f257010bb3e6a72c6c5ab8779f1982b3
disable_mmu() cannot work as a C function as there is no control
over data accesses generated by the compiler between disabling and
cleaning the data cache. This results in reading stale data from
main memory.
As assembler version is provided for EL3, and a variant that also
disables the instruction cache which is now used by the BL1
exception handling function.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#147
Change-Id: I0cf394d2579a125a23c2f2989c2e92ace6ddb1a6
The current code does not always use data and instruction
barriers as required by the architecture and frequently uses
barriers excessively due to their inclusion in all of the
write_*() helper functions.
Barriers should be used explicitly in assembler or C code
when modifying processor state that requires the barriers in
order to enable review of correctness of the code.
This patch removes the barriers from the helper functions and
introduces them as necessary elsewhere in the code.
PORTING NOTE: check any port of Trusted Firmware for use of
system register helper functions for reliance on the previous
barrier behaviour and add explicit barriers as necessary.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#92
Change-Id: Ie63e187404ff10e0bdcb39292dd9066cb84c53bf
Reduce the number of header files included from other header
files as much as possible without splitting the files. Use forward
declarations where possible. This allows removal of some unnecessary
"#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__" statements.
Also, review the .c and .S files for which header files really need
including and reorder the #include statements alphabetically.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#31
Change-Id: Iec92fb976334c77453e010b60bcf56f3be72bd3e
This extends the --gc-sections behaviour to the many assembler
support functions in the firmware images by placing each function
into its own code section. This is achieved by creating a 'func'
macro used to declare each function label.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#80
Change-Id: I301937b630add292d2dec6d2561a7fcfa6fec690
bl1/aarch64/early_exceptions.S used to be re-used by BL2, BL3-1 and
BL3-2. There was some early SMC handling code in there that was not
required by the other bootloader stages. Therefore this patch
introduces an even simpler exception vector source file for BL2,
BL3-1 and BL3-2.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#38
Change-Id: I0244b80e9930b0f8035156a0bf91cc3e9a8f995d
Sandrine Bailleux
Juan Castillo
Achin Gupta
Vikram Kanigiri
Andrew Thoelke
Dan Handley