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>
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>
The build option `ENABLE_ASSERTIONS` should be used instead. That way
both C and ASM assertions can be enabled or disabled together.
All occurrences of `ASM_ASSERTION` in common code and ARM platforms have
been replaced by `ENABLE_ASSERTIONS`.
ASM_ASSERTION has been removed from the user guide.
Change-Id: I51f1991f11b9b7ff83e787c9a3270c274748ec6f
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Add the new build option `ENABLE_ASSERTIONS` that controls whether or
not assert functions are compiled out. It defaults to 1 for debug builds
and to 0 for release builds.
Additionally, a following patch will be done to allow this build option
to hide auxiliary code used for the checks done in an `assert()`. This
code is is currently under the DEBUG build flag.
Assert messages are now only printed if LOG_LEVEL >= LOG_LEVEL_INFO,
which is the default for debug builds.
This patch also updates the User Guide.
Change-Id: I1401530b56bab25561bb0f274529f1d12c5263bc
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
The desired behaviour is to call `plat_panic_handler()`, and to use
`no_ret` to do so from ASM.
Change-Id: I88b2feefa6e6c8f9bf057fd51ee0d2e9fb551e4f
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>
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>
Added a new platform porting function plat_panic_handler, to allow
platforms to handle unexpected error situations. It must be
implemented in assembly as it may be called before the C environment
is initialized. A default implementation is provided, which simply
spins.
Corrected all dead loops in generic code to call this function
instead. This includes the dead loop that occurs at the end of the
call to panic().
All unnecesary wfis from bl32/tsp/aarch64/tsp_exceptions.S have
been removed.
Change-Id: I67cb85f6112fa8e77bd62f5718efcef4173d8134
In order for the symbol table in the ELF file to contain the size of
functions written in assembly, it is necessary to report it to the
assembler using the .size directive.
To fulfil the above requirements, this patch introduces an 'endfunc'
macro which contains the .endfunc and .size directives. It also adds
a .func directive to the 'func' assembler macro.
The .func/.endfunc have been used so the assembler can fail if
endfunc is omitted.
FixesARM-Software/tf-issues#295
Change-Id: If8cb331b03d7f38fe7e3694d4de26f1075b278fc
Signed-off-by: Kévin Petit <kevin.petit@arm.com>
This patch provides a workaround for the ASM_ASSERT label issue
and also reworks the use of labels in assembly macros.
If the caller of the ASM_ASSERT macro happened to use the
label '1' to jump past the ASM_ASSERT macro, it would not have
worked since the ASM_ASSERT macro internally used the same label.
Hence, as a workaround, this patch makes the label a high
number in the expectation that the caller will never use it.
Also updated the other assembly macros using numerical labels to
named lables.
Change-Id: Iec892359db84f2391ad2a83a92141c4d7049776a
This patch reworks the crash reporting mechanism to further
optimise the stack and code size. The reporting makes use
of assembly console functions to avoid calling C Runtime
to report the CPU state. The crash buffer requirement is
reduced to 64 bytes with this implementation. The crash
buffer is now part of per-cpu data which makes retrieving
the crash buffer trivial.
Also now panic() will use crash reporting if
invoked from BL3-1.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#199
Change-Id: I79d27a4524583d723483165dc40801f45e627da5
The patch implements a macro ASM_ASSERT() which can
be invoked from assembly code. When assertion happens,
file name and line number of the check is written
to the crash console.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#95
Change-Id: I6f905a068e1c0fa4f746d723f18df60daaa00a86
Julius Werner
dp-arm
Antonio Nino Diaz
Jeenu Viswambharan
Kévin Petit
Soby Mathew