Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755405Ab3ILJSN (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:18:13 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:61006 "EHLO mail-ob0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752489Ab3ILJSK (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:18:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130910130431.GE27966@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1378351680-14696-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> <1378351680-14696-2-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> <5228CEDB.1090306@gmail.com> <20130910130431.GE27966@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:18:09 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] ARM: add basic Trusted Foundations support From: Linus Walleij To: Will Deacon Cc: Alexandre Courbot , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Kevin Hilman , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Stephen Warren , Tomasz Figa , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" , Alexandre Courbot , Olof Johansson , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2926 Lines: 89 On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 07:15:31AM +0100, Alexandre Courbot wrote: >> I don't have any information about the future of TF unfortunately, >> excepted that it should remain backward-compatible. What is this SMC >> calling convention doc your are talking about btw? Is there a standard >> calling convention defined by ARM? > > SMC calling convention: > https://silver.arm.com/download/download.tm?pv=1435186 According to the SMC calling convention r0 should be the SMC function identifier. +static void __naked tf_generic_smc(u32 type, u32 subtype, u32 arg) +{ + asm volatile( + ".arch_extension sec\n\t" + "stmfd sp!, {r4 - r11, lr}\n\t" + __asmeq("%0", "r0") + __asmeq("%1", "r1") + __asmeq("%2", "r2") + "mov r3, #0\n\t" + "mov r4, #0\n\t" + "smc #0\n\t" + "ldmfd sp!, {r4 - r11, pc}" + : + : "r" (type), "r" (subtype), "r" (arg) + : "memory"); +} So type == function identifier? Or are these two totally different things, such that trusted foundations are already a different beast that what the SMC calling convention specifies? Anyway: r0,r1,r2 = type/subtype/arg. +#define TF_SET_CPU_BOOT_ADDR_SMC 0xfffff200 (...) +static int tf_set_cpu_boot_addr(int cpu, unsigned long boot_addr) +{ + tf_generic_smc(TF_SET_CPU_BOOT_ADDR_SMC, boot_addr, 0); + + return 0; +} What kind of a "subtype" is the boot address? I could have accepted it if the *last* thing, the argument contained the boot address. With the type/subtype/arg convention it would be more natural if the "subtype" was something like 0. Should the SMC function rather have this signature: tf_generic_smc(u32 type, u32 arg1, u32 arg2) ? Then *sometimes* arg1 is a subtype, if the "type" is such that it takes a subtype? (That's a rough guess.) So to begin with the arguments to tf_generic_smc() are either confusingly named or tf_set_cpu_boot_addr() begins the journey with violating the function signature. I also wonder what kind if "type" starts its enumerator on 0xfffff200? Wouldn't it be more natural if it was e.g. 1? It looks like the TF_SET_CPU_BOOT_ADDR_SMC reflects some bit-wise encoding scheme, so some details here wouldn't hurt? The main thing is that the patch has to say that this is an API toward trusted foundations, that it has nothing to do with the SMC calling conventions, and only pertain to devices that use trusted foundations, so as to avoid any confusion. Then I'm game :-) Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/