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Instead of using the system register helper functions to read
or write system registers, assembler coded functions should
use MRS/MSR instructions. This results in faster and more
compact code.
This change replaces all usage of the helper functions with
direct register accesses.
Change-Id: I791d5f11f257010bb3e6a72c6c5ab8779f1982b3
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disable_mmu() cannot work as a C function as there is no control
over data accesses generated by the compiler between disabling and
cleaning the data cache. This results in reading stale data from
main memory.
As assembler version is provided for EL3, and a variant that also
disables the instruction cache which is now used by the BL1
exception handling function.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#147
Change-Id: I0cf394d2579a125a23c2f2989c2e92ace6ddb1a6
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The current code does not always use data and instruction
barriers as required by the architecture and frequently uses
barriers excessively due to their inclusion in all of the
write_*() helper functions.
Barriers should be used explicitly in assembler or C code
when modifying processor state that requires the barriers in
order to enable review of correctness of the code.
This patch removes the barriers from the helper functions and
introduces them as necessary elsewhere in the code.
PORTING NOTE: check any port of Trusted Firmware for use of
system register helper functions for reliance on the previous
barrier behaviour and add explicit barriers as necessary.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#92
Change-Id: Ie63e187404ff10e0bdcb39292dd9066cb84c53bf
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SCTLR_EL3.EE is being configured too late in bl1_arch_setup() and
bl31_arch_setup() after data accesses have already occured on
the cold and warm boot paths.
This control bit must be configured immediately on CPU reset to
match the endian state of the firmware (little endian).
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#145
Change-Id: Ie12e46fbbed6baf024c30beb50751591bb8c8655
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Reduce the number of header files included from other header
files as much as possible without splitting the files. Use forward
declarations where possible. This allows removal of some unnecessary
"#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__" statements.
Also, review the .c and .S files for which header files really need
including and reorder the #include statements alphabetically.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#31
Change-Id: Iec92fb976334c77453e010b60bcf56f3be72bd3e
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Using GCC --gc-sections to eliminate unused code and data
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BL3-1 architecture setup code programs the system counter frequency
into the CNTFRQ_EL0 register. This frequency is defined by the
platform, though. This patch introduces a new platform hook that
the architecture setup code can call to retrieve this information.
In the ARM FVP port, this returns the first entry of the frequency
modes table from the memory mapped generic timer.
All system counter setup code has been removed from BL1 as some
platforms may not have initialized the system counters at this stage.
The platform specific settings done exclusively in BL1 have been moved
to BL3-1. In the ARM FVP port, this consists in enabling and
initializing the System level generic timer. Also, the frequency change
request in the counter control register has been set to 0 to make it
explicit it's using the base frequency. The CNTCR_FCREQ() macro has been
fixed in this context to give an entry number rather than a bitmask.
In future, when support for firmware update is implemented, there
is a case where BL1 platform specific code will need to program
the counter frequency. This should be implemented at that time.
This patch also updates the relevant documentation.
It properly fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#24
Change-Id: If95639b279f75d66ac0576c48a6614b5ccb0e84b
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This reverts commit 1c297bf015226c182b66498d5a64b8b51c7624f5
because it introduced a bug: the CNTFRQ_EL0 register was no
longer programmed by all CPUs. bl31_platform_setup() function
is invoked only in the cold boot path and consequently only
on the primary cpu.
A subsequent commit will correctly implement the necessary changes
to the counter frequency setup code.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#125
Conflicts:
docs/firmware-design.md
plat/fvp/bl31_plat_setup.c
Change-Id: Ib584ad7ed069707ac04cf86717f836136ad3ab54
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This extends the --gc-sections behaviour to the many assembler
support functions in the firmware images by placing each function
into its own code section. This is achieved by creating a 'func'
macro used to declare each function label.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#80
Change-Id: I301937b630add292d2dec6d2561a7fcfa6fec690
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bl1/aarch64/early_exceptions.S used to be re-used by BL2, BL3-1 and
BL3-2. There was some early SMC handling code in there that was not
required by the other bootloader stages. Therefore this patch
introduces an even simpler exception vector source file for BL2,
BL3-1 and BL3-2.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#38
Change-Id: I0244b80e9930b0f8035156a0bf91cc3e9a8f995d
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Each ARM Trusted Firmware image should know in which EL it is running
and it should use the corresponding register directly instead of reading
currentEL and knowing which asm register to read/write
Change-Id: Ief35630190b6f07c8fbb7ba6cb20db308f002945
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At present, the entry point for each BL image is specified via the
Makefiles and provided on the command line to the linker. When using a
link script the entry point should rather be specified via the ENTRY()
directive in the link script.
This patch updates linker scripts of all BL images to specify the entry
point using the ENTRY() directive. It also removes the --entry flag
passed to the linker through Makefile.
Fixes issue ARM-software/tf-issues#66
Change-Id: I1369493ebbacea31885b51185441f6b628cf8da0
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At present, bl1_arch_setup() and bl31_arch_setup() program the counter
frequency using a value from the memory mapped generic timer. The
generic timer however is not necessarily present on all ARM systems
(although it is architected to be present on all server systems).
This patch moves the timer setup to platform-specific code and updates
the relevant documentation. Also, CNTR.FCREQ is set as the specification
requires the bit corresponding to the counter's frequency to be set when
enabling. Since we intend to use the base frequency, set bit 8.
Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#24
Change-Id: I32c52cf882253e01f49056f47c58c23e6f422652
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This patch adds guards so that an exception vector exceeding 32
instructions will generate a compile-time error. This keeps the
exception handlers in check from spilling over.
Change-Id: I7aa56dd0071a333664e2814c656d3896032046fe
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This patch ensures that VBAR_EL3 points to the simple stack-less
'early_exceptions' when the C runtime stack is not correctly setup to
use the more complex 'runtime_exceptions'. It is initialised to
'runtime_exceptions' once this is done.
This patch also moves all exception vectors into a '.vectors' section
and modifies linker scripts to place all such sections together. This
will minimize space wastage from alignment restrictions.
Change-Id: I8c3e596ea3412c8bd582af9e8d622bb1cb2e049d
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The SynchronousExceptionA64 vector has gone beyond the 32-instruction
limit for individual exception vector. This patch splits and relocates
the exception handler so that it fits into the 32-instruction window.
Change-Id: Ic60c4fc3f09a1cb071d63ff0e58353ecaecbb62f
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This patch replaces the empty definition of display_boot_progress() in
bl2_main.c with a weak definition. The former allowed bl2 to use the
early_exceptions(). It is possible to do that with a simple weak
definition as well.
Change-Id: Idb3f425a5e265f3579b638e3d26bd8c9bb78f80d
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Ctags seem to have a problem with generating tags for assembler symbols
when a comment immediately follows an assembly label.
This patch inserts a single space character between the label
definition and the following comments to help ctags.
The patch is generated by the command:
git ls-files -- \*.S | xargs sed -i 's/^\([^:]\+\):;/\1: ;/1'
Change-Id: If7a3c9d0f51207ea033cc8b8e1b34acaa0926475
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Traps when accessing architectural features are disabled by clearing bits
in CPTR_EL3 during early boot, including accesses to floating point
registers. The value of this register was previously undetermined, causing
unwanted traps to EL3. Future EL3 code (for example, context save/restore
code) may use floating point registers, although they are not used by current
code.
Also, the '-mgeneral-regs-only' flag is enabled in the GCC settings to
prevent generation of code that uses floating point registers.
Change-Id: I9a03675f6387bbbee81a6f2c9ccf81150db03747
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Change-Id: Ic7fb61aabae1d515b9e6baf3dd003807ff42da60
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- Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.
- Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.
Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5
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This patch makes sure the C runtime environment is properly
initialised before executing any C code.
- Zero-initialise NOBITS sections (e.g. the bss section).
- Relocate BL1 data from ROM to RAM.
Change-Id: I0da81b417b2f0d1f7ef667cc5131b1e47e22571f
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- Check at link-time that bootloader images will fit in memory
at run time and that they won't overlap each other.
- Remove text and rodata orphan sections.
- Define new linker symbols to remove the need for platform setup
code to know the order of sections.
- Reduce the size of the raw binary images by cutting some sections
out of the disk image and allocating them at load time, whenever
possible.
- Rework alignment constraints on sections.
- Remove unused linker symbols.
- Homogenize linker symbols names across all BLs.
- Add some comments in the linker scripts.
Change-Id: I47a328af0ccc7c8ab47fcc0dc6e7dd26160610b9
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Any asynchronous exception caused by the firmware should be handled
in the firmware itself. For this reason, unmask SError exceptions
(and Debug ones as well) on all boot paths. Also route external
abort and SError interrupts to EL3, otherwise they will target EL1.
Change-Id: I9c191d2d0dcfef85f265641c8460dfbb4d112092
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blx_plat_arch_setup() should only perform platform-specific
architectural setup, e.g. enabling the MMU. This patch moves
generic architectural setup code out of blx_plat_arch_setup().
Change-Id: I4ccf56b8c4a2fa84909817779a2d97a14aaafab6
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