arm-trusted-firmware/make_helpers
Alexei Fedorov 9fc59639e6 Add support for Branch Target Identification
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>
2019-05-24 14:44:45 +01:00
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tbbr Build: remove third argument of CERT_ADD_CMD_OPT 2018-02-01 20:20:03 +09:00
armv7-a-cpus.mk plat/arm: Support for Cortex A5 in FVP Versatile Express platform 2019-02-19 17:07:48 +00:00
build_env.mk Use SPDX license identifiers 2017-05-03 09:39:28 +01:00
build_macros.mk build_macros: Add mechanism to prevent bin generation. 2019-05-02 12:27:19 +02:00
cygwin.mk Use SPDX license identifiers 2017-05-03 09:39:28 +01:00
defaults.mk Add support for Branch Target Identification 2019-05-24 14:44:45 +01:00
msys.mk Use SPDX license identifiers 2017-05-03 09:39:28 +01:00
plat_helpers.mk Change PLATFORM_ROOT to TF_PLATFORM_ROOT 2018-03-05 14:18:04 +08:00
unix.mk Makefile: Fix verbose builds on Windows 2018-10-19 15:54:27 +01:00
windows.mk Makefile: Fix verbose builds on Windows 2018-10-19 15:54:27 +01:00