SMCCCv1.3 introduces the SVE hint bit added to the SMC FID (bit 16)
denoting that the world issuing an SMC doesn't expect the callee to
preserve the SVE state (FFR, predicates, Zn vector bits greater than
127). Update the generic SMC handler to copy the SVE hint bit state
to SMC flags and mask out the bit by default for the services called
by the standard dispatcher. It is permitted by the SMCCC standard to
ignore the bit as long as the SVE state is preserved. In any case a
callee must preserve the NEON state (FPCR/FPSR, Vn 128b vectors)
whichever the SVE hint bit state.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez@arm.com>
Change-Id: I2b163ed83dc311b8f81f96b23c942829ae9fa1b5
As per change [1], now HW_CONFIG gets loaded in secure and
non-secure memory. Hence updated the documentation to show
secure and non-secure load region of HW_CONFIG in FVP Arm
platform.
Additionally, added a note on how FW_CONFIG address gets
passed from BL2 to BL31/SP_MIN.
[1]: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/14620
Change-Id: I37e02ff4f433c87bccbe67c7df5ecde3017668b9
Signed-off-by: Manish V Badarkhe <Manish.Badarkhe@arm.com>
This patch expands the RME documentation with description of TF-A
changes for RME. It also modifies some other parts of TF-A documentation
to account for RME changes.
Signed-off-by: Zelalem Aweke <zelalem.aweke@arm.com>
Change-Id: I9e6feeee235f0ba4b767d239f15840f1e0c540bb
there are features which are marked as experimental even though they
are stable and used for quite some time.
Following features are no longer marked as experimental
- SPMD
- MEASURED_BOOT
- FCONF and associated build flags
- DECRYPTION_SUPPORT and associated build flags
- ENABLE_PAUTH
- ENABLE_BTI
- USE_SPINLOCK_CAS
- GICv3 Multichip support
Signed-off-by: Manish Pandey <manish.pandey2@arm.com>
Change-Id: I4bb653d9c413c66095ec31f0b8aefeb13ea04ee9
To avoid trapping from EL0/1, FPEN bits need to be set 0x3, not
clearing.
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Change-Id: Ic34e9aeb876872883c5f040618ed6d50f21dacd0
These broken links were found with the help of this command:
$> sphinx-build -M linkcheck . build
A sample broken link is reported as follows:
(line 80) -local- firmware-design.rst#secure-el1-payloads-and-dispatchers
Change-Id: I5dcefdd4b8040908658115647e957f6c2c5da7c2
Signed-off-by: Madhukar Pappireddy <madhukar.pappireddy@arm.com>
The link to the exception handling framework page on the System Design /
Firmware Design / Section 4.3 just links to itself, so I changed it to
link to the exception handling framework component document.
Signed-off-by: John Powell <john.powell@arm.com>
Change-Id: I6711b423a789b2b3d1921671e8497fffa8ba33d1
Captured the increase in firmware configuration area from
4KB to 8kB in memory layout document. Updated the documentation
to provide details about fw_config separately.
Signed-off-by: Manish V Badarkhe <Manish.Badarkhe@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ifbec443ced479301be65827b49ff4fe447e9109f
This is a fixup for patch 3ba55a3c5f
("docs: Update SMCCC doc, other changes for release"), where some
links names got changed but their references didn't.
Change-Id: I980d04dde338f3539a2ec1ae2e807440587b1cf5
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
To accommodate the increasing size of the SCP_BL2 binary, the base
address of the memory region allocated to SCP_BL2 has been moved
downwards from its current (mostly) arbitrary address to the beginning
of the non-shared trusted SRAM.
Change-Id: I086a3765bf3ea88f45525223d765dc0dbad6b434
Signed-off-by: Chris Kay <chris.kay@arm.com>
This patch provides a fix for incorrect crash dump data for
lower EL when TF-A is built with HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST=1 option
which enables routing of External Aborts and SErrors to EL3.
Change-Id: I9d5e6775e6aad21db5b78362da6c3a3d897df977
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>
This patch adds information on the PMU configuration registers
and security considerations related to the PMU.
Signed-off-by: Petre-Ionut Tudor <petre-ionut.tudor@arm.com>
Change-Id: I36b15060b9830a77d3f47f293c0a6dafa3c581fb
Some platforms are extremely memory constrained and must split BL31
between multiple non-contiguous areas in SRAM. Allow the NOBITS
sections (.bss, stacks, page tables, and coherent memory) to be placed
in a separate region of RAM from the loaded firmware image.
Because the NOBITS region may be at a lower address than the rest of
BL31, __RW_{START,END}__ and __BL31_{START,END}__ cannot include this
region, or el3_entrypoint_common would attempt to invalidate the dcache
for the entire address space. New symbols __NOBITS_{START,END}__ are
added when SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION is enabled, and the dcached for the
NOBITS region is invalidated separately.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Change-Id: Idedfec5e4dbee77e94f2fdd356e6ae6f4dc79d37
The User Guide document has grown organically over time and
now covers a wide range of topics, making it difficult to
skim read and extract information from. Currently, it covers
these topics and maybe a couple more:
- Requirements (hardware, tools, libs)
- Checking out the repo
- Basic build instructions
- A comprehensive list of build flags
- FIP packaging
- Building specifically for Juno
- Firmware update images
- EL3 payloads
- Preloaded BL33 boot flow
- Running on FVPs
- Running on Juno
I have separated these out into a few groups that become new
documents. Broadly speaking, build instructions for the tools,
for TF-A generally, and for specific scenarios are separated.
Content relating to specific platforms (Juno and the FVPs are
Arm-specific platforms, essentially) has been moved into the
documentation that is specific to those platforms, under
docs/plat/arm.
Change-Id: Ica87c52d8cd4f577332be0b0738998ea3ba3bbec
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
From AArch64 state, arguments are passed in registers W0-W7(X0-X7)
and results are returned in W0-W7(X0-X7) for SMC32(SMC64) calls.
From AArch32 state, arguments are passed in registers R0-R7 and
results are returned in registers R0-R7 for SMC32 calls.
Most of the functions and macros already existed to support using
upto 8 registers for passing/returning parameters/results. Added
few helper macros for SMC calls from AArch32 state.
Link to the specification:
https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0028/c
Change-Id: I87976b42454dc3fc45c8343e9640aa78210e9741
Signed-off-by: Madhukar Pappireddy <madhukar.pappireddy@arm.com>
Tidying up a few Sphinx warnings that had built-up over time.
None of these are critical but it cleans up the Sphinx output.
At the same time, fixing some spelling errors that were detected.
Change-Id: I38209e235481eed287f8008c6de9dedd6b12ab2e
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Currently links between documents are using the format:
<path/to/><filename>.rst
This was required for services like GitHub because they render each
document in isolation - linking to another document is like linking
to any other file, just provide the full path.
However, with the new approach, the .rst files are only the raw
source for the documents. Once the documents have been rendered
the output is now in another format (HTML in our case) and so,
when linking to another document, the link must point to the
rendered version and not the .rst file.
The RST spec provides a few methods for linking between content.
The parent of this patch enabled the automatic creation of anchors
for document titles - we will use these anchors as the targets for
our links. Additional anchors can be added by hand if needed, on
section and sub-section titles, for example.
An example of this new format, for a document with the title
"Firmware Design" is :ref:`Firmware Design`.
One big advantage of this is that anchors are not dependent on
paths. We can then move documents around, even between directories,
without breaking any links between documents. Links will need to be
updated only if the title of a document changes.
Change-Id: I9e2340a61dd424cbd8fd1ecc2dc166f460d81703
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Make the spinlock implementation use ARMv8.1-LSE CAS instruction based
on a platform build option. The CAS-based implementation used to be
unconditionally selected for all ARM8.1+ platforms.
The previous CAS spinlock implementation had a bug wherein the spin_unlock()
implementation had an `sev` after `stlr` which is not sufficient. A dsb is
needed to ensure that the stlr completes prior to the sev. Having a dsb is
heavyweight and a better solution would be to use load exclusive semantics
to monitor the lock and wake up from wfe when a store happens to the lock.
The patch implements the same.
Change-Id: I5283ce4a889376e4cc01d1b9d09afa8229a2e522
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez@arm.com>
A new build flag, CTX_INCLUDE_MTE_REGS, has been added; this patch adds
documentation for it in the User Guide along with instructions of what
different values mean.
Change-Id: I430a9c6ced06b1b6be317edbeff4f5530e30f63a
Signed-off-by: Justin Chadwell <justin.chadwell@arm.com>
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>
The documentation contains plenty of notes and warnings. Enable
special rendering of these blocks by converting the note prefix
into a .. note:: annotation.
Change-Id: I34e26ca6bf313d335672ab6c2645741900338822
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Several code blocks do not specify a language for syntax
highlighting. This results in Sphinx using a default highlighter
which is Python.
This patch adds the correct language to each code block that doesn't
already specify it.
Change-Id: Icce1949aabfdc11a334a42d49edf55fa673cddc3
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
These are no longer needed as there will always be a table of contents
rendered to the left of every page.
Some of these lists can be quite long and, when opening a page, the
reader sees nothing but a huge list of contents! After this patch,
the document contents are front-and-centre and the contents are
nicely rendered in the sidebar without duplication.
Change-Id: I444754d548ec91d00f2b04e861de8dde8856aa62
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
This patch attempts to standardise the document titles as well as
adding titles to documents that were missing one. The aim is to
remove needless references to "TF-A" or "Trusted Firmware" in the
title of every document and to make sure that the title matches
with the document content.
Change-Id: I9b93ccf43b5d57e8dc793a5311b8ed7c4dd245cc
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
This change creates the following directories under docs/
in order to provide a grouping for the content:
- components
- design
- getting_started
- perf
- process
In each of these directories an index.rst file is created
and this serves as an index / landing page for each of the
groups when the pages are compiled. Proper layout of the
top-level table of contents relies on this directory/index
structure.
Without this patch it is possible to build the documents
correctly with Sphinx but the output looks messy because
there is no overall hierarchy.
Change-Id: I3c9f4443ec98571a56a6edf775f2c8d74d7f429f
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Declare ENABLE_PAUTH and CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS
build options as experimental.
Pointer Authentication is enabled for Non-secure world
irrespective of the value of these build flags if the
CPU supports it.
The patch also fixes the description of fiptool 'help' command.
Change-Id: I46de3228fbcce774a2624cd387798680d8504c38
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>
Fix some typos and clarify some sentences.
Change-Id: Id276d1ced9a991b4eddc5c47ad9a825e6b29ef74
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
The previous commit added the infrastructure to load and save
ARMv8.3-PAuth registers during Non-secure <-> Secure world switches, but
didn't actually enable pointer authentication in the firmware.
This patch adds the functionality needed for platforms to provide
authentication keys for the firmware, and a new option (ENABLE_PAUTH) to
enable pointer authentication in the firmware itself. This option is
disabled by default, and it requires CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS to be
enabled.
Change-Id: I35127ec271e1198d43209044de39fa712ef202a5
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
ARMv8.3-PAuth adds functionality that supports address authentication of
the contents of a register before that register is used as the target of
an indirect branch, or as a load.
This feature is supported only in AArch64 state.
This feature is mandatory in ARMv8.3 implementations.
This feature adds several registers to EL1. A new option called
CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS has been added to select if the TF needs to save
them during Non-secure <-> Secure world switches. This option must be
enabled if the hardware has the registers or the values will be leaked
during world switches.
To prevent leaks, this patch also disables pointer authentication in the
Secure world if CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS is 0. Any attempt to use it will
be trapped in EL3.
Change-Id: I27beba9907b9a86c6df1d0c5bf6180c972830855
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Change-Id: I2b75be16f452a8ab7c2445ccd519fb057a135812
Co-authored-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>
Commit 2559b2c825 ("xlat v2: Dynamically detect need for CnP bit")
modified the code to convert the compile-time check for ARMv8.2-TTCNP to
a runtime check, but forgot to update the documentation associated to it.
Change-Id: I6d33a4de389d976dbdcce65d8fdf138959530669
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Just like has been done in the porting guide a couple of patches
earlier, kill all escaped underscore characters in all documents.
Change-Id: I7fb5b806412849761d9221a6ce3cbd95ec43d611
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
On ARM platforms, the BL2 memory can be overlaid by BL31/BL32. The memory
descriptors describing the list of executable images are created in BL2
R/W memory, which could be possibly corrupted later on by BL31/BL32 due
to overlay. This patch creates a reserved location in SRAM for these
descriptors and are copied over by BL2 before handing over to next BL
image.
Also this patch increases the PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL2_SIZE for juno when TBBR
is enabled.
FixesARM-Software/tf-issues#626
Change-Id: I755735706fa702024b4032f51ed4895b3687377f
Signed-off-by: Sathees Balya <sathees.balya@arm.com>
Corrects typos in core code, documentation files, drivers, Arm
platforms and services.
None of the corrections affect code; changes are limited to comments
and other documentation.
Change-Id: I5c1027b06ef149864f315ccc0ea473e2a16bfd1d
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Pointer authentication is an Armv8.3 feature that introduces
instructions that can be used to authenticate and verify pointers.
Pointer authentication instructions are allowed to be accessed from all
ELs but only when EL3 explicitly allows for it; otherwise, their usage
will trap to EL3. Since EL3 doesn't have trap handling in place, this
patch unconditionally disables all related traps to EL3 to avoid
potential misconfiguration leading to an unhandled EL3 exception.
FixesARM-software/tf-issues#629
Change-Id: I9bd2efe0dc714196f503713b721ffbf05672c14d
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
This patch introduces a build flag "RECLAIM_INIT_CODE" to mark boot time
code which allows platforms to place this memory in an appropriate
section to be reclaimed later. This features is primarily targeted for
BL31. Appropriate documentation updates are also done.
Change-Id: If0ca062851614805d769c332c771083d46599194
Signed-off-by: Daniel Boulby <daniel.boulby@arm.com>
The code of LOAD_IMAGE_V2=0 has been removed.
Change-Id: Iea03e5bebb90c66889bdb23f85c07d0c9717fffe
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Currenly the CNTFRQ register and system timer is initialized in BL31 for
use by the normal world. During firmware update, the NS-BL1 or NS-BL2U
may need to access the system timer. Hence this patch duplicates the
CNTFRQ and system timer initialization in BL1 as well.
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Change-Id: I1ede78b4ae64080fb418cb93f3e48b26d7b724dc
For the BL2_AT_EL3 configuration, move BL2 higher up to make more
space for BL31. Adjust the BL31 limit to be up to BL2 base. This is
because BL2 is always resident for the BL2_AT_EL3 configuration and
thus we cannot overlay it with BL31.
Change-Id: I71e89863ed48f5159e8b619f49c7c73b253397aa
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
This patch updates the firmware design guide for the BL memory
layout change on ARM platforms.
Change-Id: Icbfe7249484bb8b4ba3c94421172d42f27605c52
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Olivier Deprez
Manish V Badarkhe
Zelalem Aweke
Manish Pandey
Peng Fan
Madhukar Pappireddy
johpow01
Sandrine Bailleux
laurenw-arm
Chris Kay
Alexei Fedorov
Petre-Ionut Tudor
Samuel Holland
Paul Beesley
Soby Mathew
Justin Chadwell
John Tsichritzis
Antonio Nino Diaz
Sathees Balya
Jeenu Viswambharan
Daniel Boulby
Roberto Vargas
Dimitris Papastamos