refactor: unify blx_setup() and blx_main()

All BLs have a bl_setup() for things that need to happen early, a fall
back into assembly and then bl_main() for the main functionality. This
was necessary

refactor: unify blx_setup() and blx_main()

All BLs have a bl_setup() for things that need to happen early, a fall
back into assembly and then bl_main() for the main functionality. This
was necessary in order to fiddle with PAuth related things that tend to
break C calls. Since then PAuth's enablement has seen a lot of
refactoring and this is now worked around cleanly so the distinction can
be removed. The only tradeoff is that this requires pauth to not be used
for the top-level main function.

There are two main benefits to doing this: First, code is easier to
understand as it's all together and the entrypoint is smaller. Second,
the compiler gets to see more of the code and apply optimisations
(importantly LTO).

Change-Id: Iddb93551115a2048988017547eb7b8db441dbd37
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>

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fix(aarch32): avoid using r12 to store boot params

The current implementation uses the `r12` register as temporary storage
for r4. However, `r12` is a call-clobbered register, meaning its
contents a

fix(aarch32): avoid using r12 to store boot params

The current implementation uses the `r12` register as temporary storage
for r4. However, `r12` is a call-clobbered register, meaning its
contents are not preserved across function calls. This becomes
problematic when we later call the `zeromem` function, as any
information stored in `r12` will be lost. To address this issue, we
should avoid using `r12` to store boot parameters.

Change-Id: If94b7fc3a01bc617ceadaaa704d5aa5e5accfd3f
Signed-off-by: Harrison Mutai <harrison.mutai@arm.com>

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feat(debug): add helpers for aborts on AARCH32

New helper functions are created to handle data & prefetch aborts
in AARCH32. They call platform functions, just like what
report_exception is doing.
A

feat(debug): add helpers for aborts on AARCH32

New helper functions are created to handle data & prefetch aborts
in AARCH32. They call platform functions, just like what
report_exception is doing.
As extended MSR/MRS instructions (to access lr_abt in monitor mode)
are only available if CPU (Armv7) has virtualization extension,
the functions branch to original report_exception handlers if this is
not the case.
Those new helpers are created mainly to distinguish data and prefetch
aborts, as they both share the same mode.
This adds 40 bytes of code.

Change-Id: I5dd31930344ad4e3a658f8a9d366a87a300aeb67
Signed-off-by: Yann Gautier <yann.gautier@st.com>

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