When the MMU is enabled and the translation tables are mapped, data
read/writes to the translation tables are made using the attributes
specified in the translation tables themselves. However, the MMU
performs table walks with the attributes specified in TCR_ELx. They are
completely independent, so special care has to be taken to make sure
that they are the same.
This has to be done manually because it is not practical to have a test
in the code. Such a test would need to know the virtual memory region
that contains the translation tables and check that for all of the
tables the attributes match the ones in TCR_ELx. As the tables may not
even be mapped at all, this isn't a test that can be made generic.
The flags used by enable_mmu_xxx() have been moved to the same header
where the functions are.
Also, some comments in the linker scripts related to the translation
tables have been fixed.
Change-Id: I1754768bffdae75f53561b1c4a5baf043b45a304
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
When BL2_AT_EL3 option is enabled some platforms are going to
need a resident part in BL2 because the boot rom may jump to it
after a reset. This patch introduces __TEXT_RESIDENT_START__ and
__TEXT_RESIDENT_END__ linker symbols that mark the resident region.
Change-Id: Ib20c1b8ee257831bcc0ca7d3df98d0cb617a04f8
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
This patch enables BL2 to execute at the highest exception level
without any dependancy on TF BL1. This enables platforms which already
have a non-TF Boot ROM to directly load and execute BL2 and subsequent BL
stages without need for BL1. This is not currently possible because
BL2 executes at S-EL1 and cannot jump straight to EL3.
Change-Id: Ief1efca4598560b1b8c8e61fbe26d1f44e929d69
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
Antonio Nino Diaz
Roberto Vargas