Hi All,

Wanted to report to you that commit 18a25f9241f86ba2d637011ff465ce3869e8651b in hafnium "appears" broken. The issue with the optimization in this patch is that the partition images are not reloaded for each test run, which means a previous test could have written data to say SRAM, and the following test would use the old values from the previous test, when the same image is executed again from SRAM for a following test. This would be a problem for pretty much anything in the data section of a partition. In my case, I have a counter in the data section of my partition, which does not get reset back to its original value.

I've attached a patch to help repro the issue. Fix is to disable the optimization or somehow reload the images for each run. This affects only "both world" tests.

Let me know if I'm missing something here.

Apply patch and run timeout --foreground 300s ./test/hftest/hftest.py --out_partitions out/reference/secure_aem_v8a_fvp_vm_clang --log out/reference/kokoro_log --spmc out/reference/secure_aem_v8a_fvp_clang/hafnium.bin --driver=fvp --hypervisor out/reference/aem_v8a_fvp_clang/hafnium.bin --partitions_json test/vmapi/ffa_secure_partitions/ffa_both_world_partitions_test.json

The command line is from kokoro/test_spmc.sh.

Thanks

Raghu