SPM: Introduce Secure Partition Manager
A Secure Partition is a software execution environment instantiated in
S-EL0 that can be used to implement simple management and security
services. Since S-EL0 is an unprivileged exception level, a Secure
Partition relies on privileged firmware e.g. ARM Trusted Firmware to be
granted access to system and processor resources. Essentially, it is a
software sandbox that runs under the control of privileged software in
the Secure World and accesses the following system resources:
- Memory and device regions in the system address map.
- PE system registers.
- A range of asynchronous exceptions e.g. interrupts.
- A range of synchronous exceptions e.g. SMC function identifiers.
A Secure Partition enables privileged firmware to implement only the
absolutely essential secure services in EL3 and instantiate the rest in
a partition. Since the partition executes in S-EL0, its implementation
cannot be overly complex.
The component in ARM Trusted Firmware responsible for managing a Secure
Partition is called the Secure Partition Manager (SPM). The SPM is
responsible for the following:
- Validating and allocating resources requested by a Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used for initialising a
Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by the normal world
and other secure services for accessing the services exported by a
Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by a Secure
Partition to fulfil service requests.
- Instantiating the software execution environment required by a Secure
Partition to fulfil a service request.
Change-Id: I6f7862d6bba8732db5b73f54e789d717a35e802f
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
diff --git a/include/common/aarch64/asm_macros.S b/include/common/aarch64/asm_macros.S
index 6d6989c..94a9df9 100644
--- a/include/common/aarch64/asm_macros.S
+++ b/include/common/aarch64/asm_macros.S
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
* so that it inserts illegal AArch64 instructions. This increases
* security, robustness and potentially facilitates debugging.
*/
- .macro vector_base label
- .section .vectors, "ax"
+ .macro vector_base label, section_name=.vectors
+ .section \section_name, "ax"
.align 11, 0
\label:
.endm
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@
* so that it inserts illegal AArch64 instructions. This increases
* security, robustness and potentially facilitates debugging.
*/
- .macro vector_entry label
+ .macro vector_entry label, section_name=.vectors
.cfi_sections .debug_frame
- .section .vectors, "ax"
+ .section \section_name, "ax"
.align 7, 0
.type \label, %function
.func \label