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# dfdb73f7 16-Sep-2025 Manish V Badarkhe <manish.badarkhe@arm.com>

Merge changes from topic "bk/no_blx_setup" into integration

* changes:
fix: replace stray BL2_AT_EL3 with RESET_TO_BL2
refactor(aarch64): move BL31 specific setup out of the PSCI entrypoint
re

Merge changes from topic "bk/no_blx_setup" into integration

* changes:
fix: replace stray BL2_AT_EL3 with RESET_TO_BL2
refactor(aarch64): move BL31 specific setup out of the PSCI entrypoint
refactor: unify blx_setup() and blx_main()
fix(bl2): unify the BL2 EL3 and RME entrypoints

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# d158d425 13-Aug-2025 Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>

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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# ee656609 16-Apr-2025 André Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

Merge changes Id942c20c,Idd286bea,I8917a26e,Iec8c3477,If3c25dcd, ... into integration

* changes:
feat(cpufeat): enable FEAT_PAuth to FEAT_STATE_CHECKED
perf(cpufeat): centralise PAuth key saving

Merge changes Id942c20c,Idd286bea,I8917a26e,Iec8c3477,If3c25dcd, ... into integration

* changes:
feat(cpufeat): enable FEAT_PAuth to FEAT_STATE_CHECKED
perf(cpufeat): centralise PAuth key saving
refactor(cpufeat): convert FEAT_PAuth setup to C
refactor(cpufeat): prepare FEAT_PAuth for FEATURE_DETECTION
chore(cpufeat): remove PAuth presence checks
feat(cpufeat): enable FEAT_BTI to FEAT_STATE_CHECKED

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# 10ecd580 26-Mar-2025 Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>

feat(cpufeat): enable FEAT_BTI to FEAT_STATE_CHECKED

Introduce the is_feat_bti_{supported, present}() helpers and replace
checks for ENABLE_BTI with it. Also factor out the setting of
SCTLR_EL3.BT o

feat(cpufeat): enable FEAT_BTI to FEAT_STATE_CHECKED

Introduce the is_feat_bti_{supported, present}() helpers and replace
checks for ENABLE_BTI with it. Also factor out the setting of
SCTLR_EL3.BT out of the PAuth enablement and place it in the respective
entrypoints where we initialise SCTLR_EL3. This makes PAuth
self-contained and SCTLR_EL3 initialisation centralised.

Change-Id: I0c0657ff1e78a9652cd2cf1603478283dc01f17b
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>

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# 6129e9a6 13-Sep-2019 Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Merge "Refactor ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication support code" into integration


# ed108b56 13-Sep-2019 Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

Refactor ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication support code

This patch provides the following features and makes modifications
listed below:
- Individual APIAKey key generation for each CPU.
- New key gene

Refactor ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication support code

This patch provides the following features and makes modifications
listed below:
- Individual APIAKey key generation for each CPU.
- New key generation on every BL31 warm boot and TSP CPU On event.
- Per-CPU storage of APIAKey added in percpu_data[]
of cpu_data structure.
- `plat_init_apiakey()` function replaced with `plat_init_apkey()`
which returns 128-bit value and uses Generic timer physical counter
value to increase the randomness of the generated key.
The new function can be used for generation of all ARMv8.3-PAuth keys
- ARMv8.3-PAuth specific code placed in `lib\extensions\pauth`.
- New `pauth_init_enable_el1()` and `pauth_init_enable_el3()` functions
generate, program and enable APIAKey_EL1 for EL1 and EL3 respectively;
pauth_disable_el1()` and `pauth_disable_el3()` functions disable
PAuth for EL1 and EL3 respectively;
`pauth_load_bl31_apiakey()` loads saved per-CPU APIAKey_EL1 from
cpu-data structure.
- Combined `save_gp_pauth_registers()` function replaces calls to
`save_gp_registers()` and `pauth_context_save()`;
`restore_gp_pauth_registers()` replaces `pauth_context_restore()`
and `restore_gp_registers()` calls.
- `restore_gp_registers_eret()` function removed with corresponding
code placed in `el3_exit()`.
- Fixed the issue when `pauth_t pauth_ctx` structure allocated space
for 12 uint64_t PAuth registers instead of 10 by removal of macro
CTX_PACGAKEY_END from `include/lib/el3_runtime/aarch64/context.h`
and assigning its value to CTX_PAUTH_REGS_END.
- Use of MODE_SP_ELX and MODE_SP_EL0 macro definitions
in `msr spsel` instruction instead of hard-coded values.
- Changes in documentation related to ARMv8.3-PAuth and ARMv8.5-BTI.

Change-Id: Id18b81cc46f52a783a7e6a09b9f149b6ce803211
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

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# 508a48bb 24-May-2019 Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Merge "Add support for Branch Target Identification" into integration


# 9fc59639 24-May-2019 Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

Add support for Branch Target Identification

This patch adds the functionality needed for platforms to provide
Branch Target Identification (BTI) extension, introduced to AArch64
in Armv8.5-A by add

Add support for Branch Target Identification

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>

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# c0ce16fb 13-Mar-2019 Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Merge pull request #1878 from jts-arm/sctlr

Apply stricter speculative load restriction


# 02b57943 04-Mar-2019 John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Apply stricter speculative load restriction

The SCTLR.DSSBS bit is zero by default thus disabling speculative loads.
However, we also explicitly set it to zero for BL2 and TSP images when
each image

Apply stricter speculative load restriction

The SCTLR.DSSBS bit is zero by default thus disabling speculative loads.
However, we also explicitly set it to zero for BL2 and TSP images when
each image initialises its context. This is done to ensure that the
image environment is initialised in a safe state, regardless of the
reset value of the bit.

Change-Id: If25a8396641edb640f7f298b8d3309d5cba3cd79
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

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# 57bc6424 27-Feb-2019 Antonio Niño Díaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Merge pull request #1829 from antonio-nino-diaz-arm/an/pauth

Add Pointer Authentication (ARMv8.3-PAuth) support to the TF


# 9d93fc2f 31-Jan-2019 Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

BL2: Enable pointer authentication support

The size increase after enabling options related to ARMv8.3-PAuth is:

+----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+
|

BL2: Enable pointer authentication support

The size increase after enabling options related to ARMv8.3-PAuth is:

+----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+
| | text | bss | data | rodata |
+----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+
| CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS = 1 | +40 | +0 | +0 | +0 |
| | 0.2% | | | |
+----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+
| ENABLE_PAUTH = 1 | +664 | +0 | +16 | +0 |
| | 3.1% | | 0.9% | |
+----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+

Results calculated with the following build configuration:

make PLAT=fvp SPD=tspd DEBUG=1 \
SDEI_SUPPORT=1 \
EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1 \
TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT=1 \
CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS=1 \
ENABLE_PAUTH=1

The changes for BL2_AT_EL3 aren't done in this commit.

Change-Id: I8c803b40c7160525a06173bc6cdca21c4505837d
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

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# 9a207532 04-Jan-2019 Antonio Niño Díaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Merge pull request #1726 from antonio-nino-diaz-arm/an/includes

Sanitise includes across codebase


# 09d40e0e 14-Dec-2018 Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Sanitise includes across codebase

Enforce full include path for includes. Deprecate old paths.

The following folders inside include/lib have been left unchanged:

- include/lib/cpus/${ARCH}
- inclu

Sanitise includes across codebase

Enforce full include path for includes. Deprecate old paths.

The following folders inside include/lib have been left unchanged:

- include/lib/cpus/${ARCH}
- include/lib/el3_runtime/${ARCH}

The reason for this change is that having a global namespace for
includes isn't a good idea. It defeats one of the advantages of having
folders and it introduces problems that are sometimes subtle (because
you may not know the header you are actually including if there are two
of them).

For example, this patch had to be created because two headers were
called the same way: e0ea0928d5b7 ("Fix gpio includes of mt8173 platform
to avoid collision."). More recently, this patch has had similar
problems: 46f9b2c3a282 ("drivers: add tzc380 support").

This problem was introduced in commit 4ecca33988b9 ("Move include and
source files to logical locations"). At that time, there weren't too
many headers so it wasn't a real issue. However, time has shown that
this creates problems.

Platforms that want to preserve the way they include headers may add the
removed paths to PLAT_INCLUDES, but this is discouraged.

Change-Id: I39dc53ed98f9e297a5966e723d1936d6ccf2fc8f
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

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# cf0886e2 29-Oct-2018 Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Merge pull request #1644 from soby-mathew/sm/pie_proto

Position Indepedent Executable (PIE) Support


# f1722b69 12-Oct-2018 Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

PIE: Use PC relative adrp/adr for symbol reference

This patch fixes up the AArch64 assembly code to use
adrp/adr instructions instead of ldr instruction for
reference to symbols. This allows these a

PIE: Use PC relative adrp/adr for symbol reference

This patch fixes up the AArch64 assembly code to use
adrp/adr instructions instead of ldr instruction for
reference to symbols. This allows these assembly
sequences to be Position Independant. Note that the
the reference to sizes have been replaced with
calculation of size at runtime. This is because size
is a constant value and does not depend on execution
address and using PC relative instructions for loading
them makes them relative to execution address. Also
we cannot use `ldr` instruction to load size as it
generates a dynamic relocation entry which must *not*
be fixed up and it is difficult for a dynamic loader
to differentiate which entries need to be skipped.

Change-Id: I8bf4ed5c58a9703629e5498a27624500ef40a836
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

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# c7aa7fdf 26-Feb-2018 davidcunado-arm <david.cunado@arm.com>

Merge pull request #1263 from soby-mathew/sm/dyn_config

Dynamic Configuration Prototype


# a6f340fe 09-Jan-2018 Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Introduce the new BL handover interface

This patch introduces a new BL handover interface. It essentially allows
passing 4 arguments between the different BL stages. Effort has been made
so as to be

Introduce the new BL handover interface

This patch introduces a new BL handover interface. It essentially allows
passing 4 arguments between the different BL stages. Effort has been made
so as to be compatible with the previous handover interface. The previous
blx_early_platform_setup() platform API is now deprecated and the new
blx_early_platform_setup2() variant is introduced. The weak compatiblity
implementation for the new API is done in the `plat_bl_common.c` file.
Some of the new arguments in the new API will be reserved for generic
code use when dynamic configuration support is implemented. Otherwise
the other registers are available for platform use.

Change-Id: Ifddfe2ea8e32497fe1beb565cac155ad9d50d404
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

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# f132b4a0 04-May-2017 davidcunado-arm <david.cunado@arm.com>

Merge pull request #925 from dp-arm/dp/spdx

Use SPDX license identifiers


# 82cb2c1a 03-May-2017 dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Use SPDX license identifiers

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

Use SPDX license identifiers

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>

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# ed756252 06-Apr-2017 davidcunado-arm <david.cunado@arm.com>

Merge pull request #886 from dp-arm/dp/stack-protector

Add support for GCC stack protection


# 51faada7 24-Feb-2017 Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

Add support for GCC stack protection

Introduce new build option ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR. It enables
compilation of all BL images with one of the GCC -fstack-protector-*
options.

A new platform funct

Add support for GCC stack protection

Introduce new build option ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR. It enables
compilation of all BL images with one of the GCC -fstack-protector-*
options.

A new platform function plat_get_stack_protector_canary() is introduced.
It returns a value that is used to initialize the canary for stack
corruption detection. Returning a random value will prevent an attacker
from predicting the value and greatly increase the effectiveness of the
protection.

A message is printed at the ERROR level when a stack corruption is
detected.

To be effective, the global data must be stored at an address
lower than the base of the stacks. Failure to do so would allow an
attacker to overwrite the canary as part of an attack which would void
the protection.

FVP implementation of plat_get_stack_protector_canary is weak as
there is no real source of entropy on the FVP. It therefore relies on a
timer's value, which could be predictable.

Change-Id: Icaaee96392733b721fa7c86a81d03660d3c1bc06
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

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# 108e4df7 16-Feb-2017 davidcunado-arm <david.cunado@arm.com>

Merge pull request #834 from douglas-raillard-arm/dr/use_dc_zva_zeroing

Use DC ZVA instruction to zero memory


# 308d359b 02-Dec-2016 Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

Introduce unified API to zero memory

Introduce zeromem_dczva function on AArch64 that can handle unaligned
addresses and make use of DC ZVA instruction to zero a whole block at a
time. This zeroing

Introduce unified API to zero memory

Introduce zeromem_dczva function on AArch64 that can handle unaligned
addresses and make use of DC ZVA instruction to zero a whole block at a
time. This zeroing takes place directly in the cache to speed it up
without doing external memory access.

Remove the zeromem16 function on AArch64 and replace it with an alias to
zeromem. This zeromem16 function is now deprecated.

Remove the 16-bytes alignment constraint on __BSS_START__ in
firmware-design.md as it is now not mandatory anymore (it used to comply
with zeromem16 requirements).

Change the 16-bytes alignment constraints in SP min's linker script to a
8-bytes alignment constraint as the AArch32 zeromem implementation is now
more efficient on 8-bytes aligned addresses.

Introduce zero_normalmem and zeromem helpers in platform agnostic header
that are implemented this way:
* AArch32:
* zero_normalmem: zero using usual data access
* zeromem: alias for zero_normalmem
* AArch64:
* zero_normalmem: zero normal memory using DC ZVA instruction
(needs MMU enabled)
* zeromem: zero using usual data access

Usage guidelines: in most cases, zero_normalmem should be preferred.

There are 2 scenarios where zeromem (or memset) must be used instead:
* Code that must run with MMU disabled (which means all memory is
considered device memory for data accesses).
* Code that fills device memory with null bytes.

Optionally, the following rule can be applied if performance is
important:
* Code zeroing small areas (few bytes) that are not secrets should use
memset to take advantage of compiler optimizations.

Note: Code zeroing security-related critical information should use
zero_normalmem/zeromem instead of memset to avoid removal by
compilers' optimizations in some cases or misbehaving versions of GCC.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#408

Change-Id: Iafd9663fc1070413c3e1904e54091cf60effaa82
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

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# 1b5fa6ef 12-Dec-2016 danh-arm <dan.handley@arm.com>

Merge pull request #774 from jeenu-arm/no-return-macro

Define and use no_ret macro where no return is expected


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