Access system registers directly in assembler

Instead of using the system register helper functions to read
or write system registers, assembler coded functions should
use MRS/MSR instructions. This

Access system registers directly in assembler

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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Replace disable_mmu with assembler version

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

Replace disable_mmu with assembler version

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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Correct usage of data and instruction barriers

The current code does not always use data and instruction
barriers as required by the architecture and frequently uses
barriers excessively due to thei

Correct usage of data and instruction barriers

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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Set processor endianness immediately after RESET

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 boo

Set processor endianness immediately after RESET

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 deep nesting of header files

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

Reduce deep nesting of header files

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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Always use named structs in header files

Add tag names to all unnamed structs in header files. This
allows forward declaration of structs, which is necessary to
reduce header file nesting (to be imp

Always use named structs in header files

Add tag names to all unnamed structs in header files. This
allows forward declaration of structs, which is necessary to
reduce header file nesting (to be implemented in a subsequent
commit).

Also change the typedef names across the codebase to use the _t
suffix to be more conformant with the Linux coding style. The
coding style actually prefers us not to use typedefs at all but
this is considered a step too far for Trusted Firmware.

Also change the IO framework structs defintions to use typedef'd
structs to be consistent with the rest of the codebase.

Change-Id: I722b2c86fc0d92e4da3b15e5cab20373dd26786f

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Separate BL functions out of arch.h

Move the BL function prototypes out of arch.h and into the
appropriate header files to allow more efficient header file
inclusion. Create new BL private header fi

Separate BL functions out of arch.h

Move the BL function prototypes out of arch.h and into the
appropriate header files to allow more efficient header file
inclusion. Create new BL private header files where there is no
sensible existing header file.

Change-Id: I45f3e10b72b5d835254a6f25a5e47cf4cfb274c3

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Remove vpath usage in makefiles

Remove all usage of the vpath keyword in makefiles as it was prone
to mistakes. Specify the relative paths to source files instead.

Also reorder source files in make

Remove vpath usage in makefiles

Remove all usage of the vpath keyword in makefiles as it was prone
to mistakes. Specify the relative paths to source files instead.

Also reorder source files in makefiles alphabetically.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#121

Change-Id: Id15f60655444bae60e0e2165259efac71a50928b

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Move include and source files to logical locations

Move almost all system include files to a logical sub-directory
under ./include. The only remaining system include directories
not under ./include

Move include and source files to logical locations

Move almost all system include files to a logical sub-directory
under ./include. The only remaining system include directories
not under ./include are specific to the platform. Move the
corresponding source files to match the include directory
structure.

Also remove pm.h as it is no longer used.

Change-Id: Ie5ea6368ec5fad459f3e8a802ad129135527f0b3

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Merge pull request #36 from athoelke/at/gc-sections-80

Using GCC --gc-sections to eliminate unused code and data

Define frequency of system counter in platform code

BL3-1 architecture setup code programs the system counter frequency
into the CNTFRQ_EL0 register. This frequency is defined by the
platform, thoug

Define frequency of system counter in platform code

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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Revert "Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code"

This reverts commit 1c297bf015226c182b66498d5a64b8b51c7624f5
because it introduced a bug: the CNTFRQ_EL0 register was no
longer progr

Revert "Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code"

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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Place assembler functions in separate sections

This extends the --gc-sections behaviour to the many assembler
support functions in the firmware images by placing each function
into its own code sect

Place assembler functions in separate sections

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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Use --gc-sections during link

All common functions are being built into all binary images,
whether or not they are actually used. This change enables the
use of -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections

Use --gc-sections during link

All common functions are being built into all binary images,
whether or not they are actually used. This change enables the
use of -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
in the compiler and linker to remove unused code and data from
the images.

Change-Id: Ia9f78c01054ac4fa15d145af38b88a0d6fb7d409

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Separate out BL2, BL3-1 and BL3-2 early exception vectors from BL1

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 wa

Separate out BL2, BL3-1 and BL3-2 early exception vectors from BL1

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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Remove partially qualified asm helper functions

Each ARM Trusted Firmware image should know in which EL it is running
and it should use the corresponding register directly instead of reading
current

Remove partially qualified asm helper functions

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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Specify image entry in linker script

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 p

Specify image entry in linker script

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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Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code

At present, bl1_arch_setup() and bl31_arch_setup() program the counter
frequency using a value from the memory mapped generic timer. The
gener

Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code

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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Generate build time and date message at link time.

So it updates each time a bootloader changes, not just when bl*_main.c
files are recompiled.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#33

Change-Id: Ie8e1a7bd

Generate build time and date message at link time.

So it updates each time a bootloader changes, not just when bl*_main.c
files are recompiled.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#33

Change-Id: Ie8e1a7bd7e1913d2e96ac268606284f76af8c5ab
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>

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Update Makefiles to get proper dependency checking working.

This change requires all platforms to now specify a list of source files
rather than object files.

New source files should preferably be

Update Makefiles to get proper dependency checking working.

This change requires all platforms to now specify a list of source files
rather than object files.

New source files should preferably be specified by using the path as
well and we should add this in the future for all files so we can remove
use of vpath. This is desirable because vpath hides issues like the fact
that BL2 currently pulls in a BL1 file bl1/aarch64/early_exceptions.S
and if in the future we added bl2/aarch64/early_exceptions.S then it's
likely only one of the two version would be used for both bootloaders.

This change also removes the 'dump' build target and simply gets
bootloaders to always generate a dump file. At the same time the -x
option is added so the section headers and symbols table are listed.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#11

Change-Id: Ie38f7be76fed95756c8576cf3f3ea3b7015a18dc
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>

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Factor out translation table setup in ARM FVP port

This patch factors out the ARM FVP specific code to create MMU
translation tables so that it is possible for a boot loader stage to
create a differ

Factor out translation table setup in ARM FVP port

This patch factors out the ARM FVP specific code to create MMU
translation tables so that it is possible for a boot loader stage to
create a different set of tables instead of using the default ones.
The default translation tables are created with the assumption that
the calling boot loader stage executes out of secure SRAM. This might
not be true for the BL3_2 stage in the future.

A boot loader stage can define the `fill_xlation_tables()` function as
per its requirements. It returns a reference to the level 1
translation table which is used by the common platform code to setup
the TTBR_EL3.

This patch is a temporary solution before a larger rework of
translation table creation logic is introduced.

Change-Id: I09a075d5da16822ee32a411a9dbe284718fb4ff6

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Rework BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface

This patch reworks BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface by introducing a
composite structure (bl31_args) that holds the superset of information
that needs to be p

Rework BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface

This patch reworks BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface by introducing a
composite structure (bl31_args) that holds the superset of information
that needs to be passed from BL2 to BL3-1.

- The extents of secure memory available to BL3-1
- The extents of memory available to BL3-2 (not yet implemented) and
BL3-3
- Information to execute BL3-2 (not yet implemented) and BL3-3 images

This patch also introduces a new platform API (bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr)
that needs to be implemented by the platform code to export reference to
bl31_args structure which has been allocated in platform-defined memory.

The platform will initialize the extents of memory available to BL3-3
during early platform setup in bl31_args structure. This obviates the
need for bl2_get_ns_mem_layout platform API.

BL2 calls the bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr function to get a reference to
bl31_args structure. It uses the 'bl33_meminfo' field of this structure
to load the BL3-3 image. It sets the entry point information for the
BL3-3 image in the 'bl33_image_info' field of this structure. The
reference to this structure is passed to the BL3-1 image.

Also fixes issue ARM-software/tf-issues#25

Change-Id: Ic36426196dd5ebf89e60ff42643bed01b3500517

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Add exception vector guards

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

Add exception vector guards

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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Setup VBAR_EL3 incrementally

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_exce

Setup VBAR_EL3 incrementally

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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Fix spilled-over BL1 exception vector

The SynchronousExceptionA64 vector has gone beyond the 32-instruction
limit for individual exception vector. This patch splits and relocates
the exception handl

Fix spilled-over BL1 exception vector

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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