When querying `SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1` through `SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES`,
return either:
* -1 to indicate the PE on which `SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES` is called
requires firmware mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 but the mitigation
is not compiled in.
* 0 to indicate that firmware mitigation is required, or
* 1 to indicate that no firmware mitigation is required.
This patch complies with v1.2 of the firmware interfaces
specification (ARM DEN 0070A).
Change-Id: Ibc32d6620efdac6c340758ec502d95554a55f02a
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Some generic compatibility functions emit deprecated declaration warnings
even when platforms do not use the deprecated functions directly. This
can be confusing. Suppress these warnings by using:
`#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"`
Also emit a runtime warning if the weak plat/common implemntation of
plat_get_syscnt_freq2() is used, as this implies the platform has not
migrated from plat_get_syscnt_freq(). The deprecated declaration warnings
only help detect when platforms are calling deprecated functions, not when
they are defining deprecated functions.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#550
Change-Id: Id14a92279c2634c1e76db8ef210da8affdbb2a5d
Signed-off-by: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>
Rule 8.4: A compatible declaration shall be visible when
an object or function with external linkage is defined.
Change-Id: I26e042cb251a6f9590afa1340fdac73e42f23979
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
Rule 8.3: All declarations of an object or function shall
use the same names and type qualifiers.
Change-Id: Iff384187c74a598a4e73f350a1893b60e9d16cec
Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
When a Yielding SMC is preempted, it's possible that Non-secure world is
resumed afterwards. In this case, Non-secure execution would find itself
in a state where the SMC has returned. However, the dispatcher might not
get an opportunity to populate the corrected return code for having
been preempted, and therefore the caller of the Yielding SMC cannot
reliably determine whether the SMC had successfully completed or had
been preempted.
To solve this, this patch introduces a new parameter to the
ehf_allow_ns_preemption() API. An SPD, through this parameter, would
provide the expected error code when a Yielding SMC is preempted. EHF
can then populate the specified value in x0 of the Non-secure context so
that the caller of the Yielding SMC correctly identifies the SMC return
as a preemption.
Documentation updates to follow.
Change-Id: Ia9c3f8f03f9d72d81aa235eaae2ee0374b972e1e
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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>
This patch introduces a new BL handover interface. It essentially allows
passing 4 arguments between the different BL stages. Effort has been made
so as to be compatible with the previous handover interface. The previous
blx_early_platform_setup() platform API is now deprecated and the new
blx_early_platform_setup2() variant is introduced. The weak compatiblity
implementation for the new API is done in the `plat_bl_common.c` file.
Some of the new arguments in the new API will be reserved for generic
code use when dynamic configuration support is implemented. Otherwise
the other registers are available for platform use.
Change-Id: Ifddfe2ea8e32497fe1beb565cac155ad9d50d404
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
According to the SMC Calling Convention (ARM DEN0028B):
The Unknown SMC Function Identifier is a sign-extended value of
(-1) that is returned in R0, W0 or X0 register.
The value wasn't sign-extended because it was defined as a 32-bit
unsigned value (0xFFFFFFFF).
SMC_PREEMPT has been redefined as -2 for the same reason.
NOTE: This might be a compatibility break for some AArch64 platforms
that don't follow the previous version of the SMCCC (ARM DEN0028A)
correctly. That document specifies that only the bottom 32 bits of the
returned value must be checked. If a platform relies on the top 32 bits
of the result being 0 (so that SMC_UNK is 0x00000000FFFFFFFF), it will
have to fix its code to comply with the SMCCC.
Change-Id: I7f7b109f6b30c114fe570aa0ead3c335383cb54d
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
When deactivating, it's not an error if the priority being deactivating
is equal to the active priority. Fix this.
Change-Id: I66f0e9e775ac9aba8a7cc48cd3ecd3b358be63c0
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
SMCCC v1.1 comes with a relaxed calling convention for AArch64
callers. The caller only needs to save x0-x3 before doing an SMC
call.
This patch adds support for SMCCC_VERSION and SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES.
Refer to "Firmware Interfaces for mitigating CVE_2017_5715 System
Software on Arm Systems"[0] for more information.
[0] https://developer.arm.com/-/media/developer/pdf/ARM%20DEN%200070A%20Firmware%20interfaces%20for%20mitigating%20CVE-2017-5715_V1.0.pdf
Change-Id: If5b1c55c17d6c5c7cb9c2c3ed355d3a91cdad0a9
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
In preparation for SMCCC v1.1 support, save x4 to x29 unconditionally.
Previously we expected callers coming from AArch64 mode to preserve
x8-x17. This is no longer the case with SMCCC v1.1 as AArch64 callers
only need to save x0-x3.
Change-Id: Ie62d620776533969ff4a02c635422f1b9208be9c
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Add some AMU helper functions to allow configuring, reading and
writing of the Group 0 and Group 1 counters. Documentation for these
helpers will come in a separate patch.
Change-Id: I656e070d2dae830c22414f694aa655341d4e2c40
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by
temporarily dropping into AArch32 Secure-EL1 and executing the
`BPIALL` instruction.
This is achieved by using 3 vector tables. There is the runtime
vector table which is used to handle exceptions and 2 additional
tables which are required to implement this workaround. The
additional tables are `vbar0` and `vbar1`.
The sequence of events for handling a single exception is
as follows:
1) Install vector table `vbar0` which saves the CPU context on entry
to EL3 and sets up the Secure-EL1 context to execute in AArch32 mode
with the MMU disabled and I$ enabled. This is the default vector table.
2) Before doing an ERET into Secure-EL1, switch vbar to point to
another vector table `vbar1`. This is required to restore EL3 state
when returning from the workaround, before proceeding with normal EL3
exception handling.
3) While in Secure-EL1, the `BPIALL` instruction is executed and an
SMC call back to EL3 is performed.
4) On entry to EL3 from Secure-EL1, the saved context from step 1) is
restored. The vbar is switched to point to `vbar0` in preparation to
handle further exceptions. Finally a branch to the runtime vector
table entry is taken to complete the handling of the original
exception.
This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs.
NOTE
====
There are 4 different stubs in Secure-EL1. Each stub corresponds to
an exception type such as Sync/IRQ/FIQ/SError. Each stub will move a
different value in `R0` before doing an SMC call back into EL3.
Without this piece of information it would not be possible to know
what the original exception type was as we cannot use `ESR_EL3` to
distinguish between IRQs and FIQs.
Change-Id: I90b32d14a3735290b48685d43c70c99daaa4b434
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by disabling
and enabling the MMU. To achieve this without performing any branch
instruction, a per-cpu vbar is installed which executes the workaround
and then branches off to the corresponding vector entry in the main
vector table. A side effect of this change is that the main vbar is
configured before any reset handling. This is to allow the per-cpu
reset function to override the vbar setting.
This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs.
Change-Id: I97788d38463a5840a410e3cea85ed297a1678265
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
In assembly code it can be useful to have a constant for the width of a
register in the current architecture, so this patch adds one to
<utils_def.h> and replaces the existing custom one in crash_reporting.S
with that. It also fixes up the BIT() macro in the same file so that it
can be safely used in assembly code.
Change-Id: I10513a311f3379e767396e6ddfbae8d2d8201464
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
This patch adds a new build option, ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS, which when set
to one EL3 will check to see if the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) is
implemented when entering and exiting the Non-secure world.
If SVE is implemented, EL3 will do the following:
- Entry to Non-secure world: SIMD, FP and SVE functionality is enabled.
- Exit from Non-secure world: SIMD, FP and SVE functionality is
disabled. As SIMD and FP registers are part of the SVE Z-registers
then any use of SIMD / FP functionality would corrupt the SVE
registers.
The build option default is 1. The SVE functionality is only supported
on AArch64 and so the build option is set to zero when the target
archiecture is AArch32.
This build option is not compatible with the CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS - an
assert will be raised on platforms where SVE is implemented and both
ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS and CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS are set to 1.
Also note this change prevents secure world use of FP&SIMD registers on
SVE-enabled platforms. Existing Secure-EL1 Payloads will not work on
such platforms unless ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS is set to 0.
Additionally, on the first entry into the Non-secure world the SVE
functionality is enabled and the SVE Z-register length is set to the
maximum size allowed by the architecture. This includes the use case
where EL2 is implemented but not used.
Change-Id: Ie2d733ddaba0b9bef1d7c9765503155188fe7dae
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>
When defining different sections in linker scripts it is needed to align
them to multiples of the page size. In most linker scripts this is done
by aligning to the hardcoded value 4096 instead of PAGE_SIZE.
This may be confusing when taking a look at all the codebase, as 4096
is used in some parts that aren't meant to be a multiple of the page
size.
Change-Id: I36c6f461c7782437a58d13d37ec8b822a1663ec1
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
The `ENABLE_AMU` build option can be used to enable the
architecturally defined AMU counters. At present, there is no support
for the auxiliary counter group.
Change-Id: I7ea0c0a00327f463199d1b0a481f01dadb09d312
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Factor out SPE operations in a separate file. Use the publish
subscribe framework to drain the SPE buffers before entering secure
world. Additionally, enable SPE before entering normal world.
A side effect of this change is that the profiling buffers are now
only drained when a transition from normal world to secure world
happens. Previously they were drained also on return from secure
world, which is unnecessary as SPE is not supported in S-EL1.
Change-Id: I17582c689b4b525770dbb6db098b3a0b5777b70a
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
The FPEXC32_EL2 register controls SIMD and FP functionality when the
lower ELs are executing in AArch32 mode. It is architecturally mapped
to AArch32 system register FPEXC.
This patch removes FPEXC32_EL2 register from the System Register context
and adds it to the floating-point context. EL3 only saves / restores the
floating-point context if the build option CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS is set to 1.
The rationale for this change is that if the Secure world is using FP
functionality and EL3 is not managing the FP context, then the Secure
world will save / restore the appropriate FP registers.
NOTE - this is a break in behaviour in the unlikely case that
CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS is set to 0 and the platform contains an AArch32
Secure Payload that modifies FPEXC, but does not save and restore
this register
Change-Id: Iab80abcbfe302752d52b323b4abcc334b585c184
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>
The implementation currently supports only interrupt-based SDEI events,
and supports all interfaces as defined by SDEI specification version
1.0 [1].
Introduce the build option SDEI_SUPPORT to include SDEI dispatcher in
BL31.
Update user guide and porting guide. SDEI documentation to follow.
[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf
Change-Id: I758b733084e4ea3b27ac77d0259705565842241a
Co-authored-by: Yousuf A <yousuf.sait@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
On GICv3 systems, as a side effect of adding provision to handle EL3
interrupts (unconditionally routing FIQs to EL3), pending Non-secure
interrupts (signalled as FIQs) may preempt execution in lower Secure ELs
[1]. This will inadvertently disrupt the semantics of Fast SMC
(previously called Atomic SMC) calls.
To retain semantics of Fast SMCs, the GIC PMR must be programmed to
prevent Non-secure interrupts from preempting Secure execution. To that
effect, two new functions in the Exception Handling Framework subscribe
to events introduced in an earlier commit:
- Upon 'cm_exited_normal_world', the Non-secure PMR is stashed, and
the PMR is programmed to the highest Non-secure interrupt priority.
- Upon 'cm_entering_normal_world', the previously stashed Non-secure
PMR is restored.
The above sequence however prevents Yielding SMCs from being preempted
by Non-secure interrupts as intended. To facilitate this, the public API
exc_allow_ns_preemption() is introduced that programs the PMR to the
original Non-secure PMR value. Another API
exc_is_ns_preemption_allowed() is also introduced to check if
exc_allow_ns_preemption() had been called previously.
API documentation to follow.
[1] On GICv2 systems, this isn't a problem as, unlike GICv3, pending NS
IRQs during Secure execution are signalled as IRQs, which aren't
routed to EL3.
Change-Id: Ief96b162b0067179b1012332cd991ee1b3051dd0
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
EHF is a framework that allows dispatching of EL3 interrupts to their
respective handlers in EL3.
This framework facilitates the firmware-first error handling policy in
which asynchronous exceptions may be routed to EL3. Such exceptions may
be handed over to respective exception handlers. Individual handlers
might further delegate exception handling to lower ELs.
The framework associates the delegated execution to lower ELs with a
priority value. For interrupts, this corresponds to the priorities
programmed in GIC; for other types of exceptions, viz. SErrors or
Synchronous External Aborts, individual dispatchers shall explicitly
associate delegation to a secure priority. In order to prevent lower
priority interrupts from preempting higher priority execution, the
framework provides helpers to control preemption by virtue of
programming Priority Mask register in the interrupt controller.
This commit allows for handling interrupts targeted at EL3. Exception
handlers own interrupts by assigning them a range of secure priorities,
and registering handlers for each priority range it owns.
Support for exception handling in BL31 image is enabled by setting the
build option EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1.
Documentation to follow.
NOTE: The framework assumes the priority scheme supported by platform
interrupt controller is compliant with that of ARM GIC architecture (v2
or later).
Change-Id: I7224337e4cea47c6ca7d7a4ca22a3716939f7e42
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
A Secure Partition is a software execution environment instantiated in
S-EL0 that can be used to implement simple management and security
services. Since S-EL0 is an unprivileged exception level, a Secure
Partition relies on privileged firmware e.g. ARM Trusted Firmware to be
granted access to system and processor resources. Essentially, it is a
software sandbox that runs under the control of privileged software in
the Secure World and accesses the following system resources:
- Memory and device regions in the system address map.
- PE system registers.
- A range of asynchronous exceptions e.g. interrupts.
- A range of synchronous exceptions e.g. SMC function identifiers.
A Secure Partition enables privileged firmware to implement only the
absolutely essential secure services in EL3 and instantiate the rest in
a partition. Since the partition executes in S-EL0, its implementation
cannot be overly complex.
The component in ARM Trusted Firmware responsible for managing a Secure
Partition is called the Secure Partition Manager (SPM). The SPM is
responsible for the following:
- Validating and allocating resources requested by a Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used for initialising a
Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by the normal world
and other secure services for accessing the services exported by a
Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by a Secure
Partition to fulfil service requests.
- Instantiating the software execution environment required by a Secure
Partition to fulfil a service request.
Change-Id: I6f7862d6bba8732db5b73f54e789d717a35e802f
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
This light-weight framework enables some EL3 components to publish
events which other EL3 components can subscribe to. Publisher can
optionally pass opaque data for subscribers. The order in which
subscribers are called is not defined.
Firmware design updated.
Change-Id: I24a3a70b2b1dedcb1f73cf48313818aebf75ebb6
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
Some error paths that lead to a crash dump will overwrite the value in
the x30 register by calling functions with the no_ret macro, which
resolves to a BL instruction. This is not very useful and not what the
reader would expect, since a crash dump should usually show all
registers in the state they were in when the exception happened. This
patch replaces the offending function calls with a B instruction to
preserve the value in x30.
Change-Id: I2a3636f2943f79bab0cd911f89d070012e697c2a
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
This fix modifies the order of system includes to meet the ARM TF coding
standard. There are some exceptions in order to retain header groupings,
minimise changes to imported headers, and where there are headers within
the #if and #ifndef statements.
Change-Id: I65085a142ba6a83792b26efb47df1329153f1624
Signed-off-by: Isla Mitchell <isla.mitchell@arm.com>
This patch updates the el3_arch_init_common macro so that it fully
initialises essential control registers rather then relying on hardware
to set the reset values.
The context management functions are also updated to fully initialise
the appropriate control registers when initialising the non-secure and
secure context structures and when preparing to leave EL3 for a lower
EL.
This gives better alignement with the ARM ARM which states that software
must initialise RES0 and RES1 fields with 0 / 1.
This patch also corrects the following typos:
"NASCR definitions" -> "NSACR definitions"
Change-Id: Ia8940b8351dc27bc09e2138b011e249655041cfc
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>
To make software license auditing simpler, use SPDX[0] license
identifiers instead of duplicating the license text in every file.
NOTE: Files that have been imported by FreeBSD have not been modified.
[0]: https://spdx.org/
Change-Id: I80a00e1f641b8cc075ca5a95b10607ed9ed8761a
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
Replace all instances of checks with the new macro.
Change-Id: I0eec39b9376475a1a9707a3115de9d36f88f8a2a
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
This patch introduces a build option to enable D-cache early on the CPU
after warm boot. This is applicable for platforms which do not require
interconnect programming to enable cache coherency (eg: single cluster
platforms). If this option is enabled, then warm boot path enables
D-caches immediately after enabling MMU.
FixesARM-Software/tf-issues#456
Change-Id: I44c8787d116d7217837ced3bcf0b1d3441c8d80e
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Introduce new build option ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR. It enables
compilation of all BL images with one of the GCC -fstack-protector-*
options.
A new platform function plat_get_stack_protector_canary() is introduced.
It returns a value that is used to initialize the canary for stack
corruption detection. Returning a random value will prevent an attacker
from predicting the value and greatly increase the effectiveness of the
protection.
A message is printed at the ERROR level when a stack corruption is
detected.
To be effective, the global data must be stored at an address
lower than the base of the stacks. Failure to do so would allow an
attacker to overwrite the canary as part of an attack which would void
the protection.
FVP implementation of plat_get_stack_protector_canary is weak as
there is no real source of entropy on the FVP. It therefore relies on a
timer's value, which could be predictable.
Change-Id: Icaaee96392733b721fa7c86a81d03660d3c1bc06
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Call console_flush() before execution either terminates or leaves an
exception level.
Fixes: ARM-software/tf-issues#123
Change-Id: I64eeb92effb039f76937ce89f877b68e355588e3
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
This API makes sure that all the characters sent to the crash console
are output before returning from it.
Porting guide updated.
Change-Id: I1785f970a40f6aacfbe592b6a911b1f249bb2735
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
These source file definitions should be defined in generic
Makefiles so that all platforms can benefit. Ensure that the
symbols are properly marked as weak so they can be overridden
by platforms.
NOTE: This change is a potential compatibility break for
non-upstream platforms.
Change-Id: I7b892efa9f2d6d216931360dc6c436e1d10cffed
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
The files affected by this patch don't really depend on `xlat_tables.h`.
By changing the included file it becomes easier to switch between the
two versions of the translation tables library.
Change-Id: Idae9171c490e0865cb55883b19eaf942457c4ccc
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
At present, warm-booted CPUs keep their caches disabled when enabling
MMU, and remains so until they enter coherency later.
On systems with hardware-assisted coherency, for which
HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY build flag would be enabled, warm-booted CPUs can
have both caches and MMU enabled at once.
Change-Id: Icb0adb026e01aecf34beadf49c88faa9dd368327
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
Introduce zeromem_dczva function on AArch64 that can handle unaligned
addresses and make use of DC ZVA instruction to zero a whole block at a
time. This zeroing takes place directly in the cache to speed it up
without doing external memory access.
Remove the zeromem16 function on AArch64 and replace it with an alias to
zeromem. This zeromem16 function is now deprecated.
Remove the 16-bytes alignment constraint on __BSS_START__ in
firmware-design.md as it is now not mandatory anymore (it used to comply
with zeromem16 requirements).
Change the 16-bytes alignment constraints in SP min's linker script to a
8-bytes alignment constraint as the AArch32 zeromem implementation is now
more efficient on 8-bytes aligned addresses.
Introduce zero_normalmem and zeromem helpers in platform agnostic header
that are implemented this way:
* AArch32:
* zero_normalmem: zero using usual data access
* zeromem: alias for zero_normalmem
* AArch64:
* zero_normalmem: zero normal memory using DC ZVA instruction
(needs MMU enabled)
* zeromem: zero using usual data access
Usage guidelines: in most cases, zero_normalmem should be preferred.
There are 2 scenarios where zeromem (or memset) must be used instead:
* Code that must run with MMU disabled (which means all memory is
considered device memory for data accesses).
* Code that fills device memory with null bytes.
Optionally, the following rule can be applied if performance is
important:
* Code zeroing small areas (few bytes) that are not secrets should use
memset to take advantage of compiler optimizations.
Note: Code zeroing security-related critical information should use
zero_normalmem/zeromem instead of memset to avoid removal by
compilers' optimizations in some cases or misbehaving versions of GCC.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#408
Change-Id: Iafd9663fc1070413c3e1904e54091cf60effaa82
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
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>
* Move comments on unhandled exceptions at the right place.
* Reformat the existing comments to highlight the start of
each block of 4 entries in the exception table to ease
navigation (lines of dash reserved for head comments).
* Reflow comments to 80 columns.
Change-Id: I5ab88a93d0628af8e151852cb5b597eb34437677
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Dimitris Papastamos
Dan Handley
davidcunado-arm
Roberto Vargas
Jeenu Viswambharan
Antonio Nino Diaz
Soby Mathew
Julius Werner
Isla Mitchell
Douglas Raillard