May 2023 - TF-A - lists.trustedfirmware.org

Need a mechanism to easily define platform-independent SMC FIDs

by Julius Werner

Hi, I would like to restart a discussion that we already had a few years ago on a thread called "SMC to intentionally trigger a panic in TF-A" (https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/search?mlist=tf-a%40lists.truste…) but that petered out without any real resolution (and resulted in me ultimately not implementing the feature I was hoping to add). Basically, we are repeatedly stumbling over the problem that we have a use case for some platform-independent SMC API that we want to implement in TF-A, but don't have an appropriate SMC FID range to put it. My request from a few years ago was about implementing a call to intentionally trigger a panic in TF-A for test-automation purposes. Today we came up with a use case where a Trusted OS wants to query BL31 about the location of a shared log buffer: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/20478 . Currently, the available SMC ranges are Arm, CPU, SiP, OEM, Standard, Hypervisor, TA and TOS. The SiP, OEM and TOS ranges are all specific to a single silicon vendor, OEM or trusted OS implementation, so they are not good targets to implement APIs that would make sense to be shared among multiple of these. In theory, the Standard range would probably be the right target to implement calls that are independently useful for multiple platforms / OSes... but as far as I understand, adding a new call to that range requires petitioning Arm to update the SMC calling convention itself, which is a ridiculously high bar to implement a small utility API. In practice, the only choice we have for implementing these kinds of calls is to let every OEM, SiP or TOS assign its own (different) FID for it and then write separate SMC handlers for each in TF-A that all end up calling the same underlying function... which creates a lot of unnecessary code duplication and identifier soup (especially in the case of SMCs for the non-secure OS which would then be implemented by a platform-independent Linux driver that needs a big mapping table to decide which FID to use on which platform for the same API). I think it would be very useful if there was another range of easily allocatable FIDs that developers could just add to with a simple TF-A CL without having to go through a huge specification update process. There are still 41 OENs unused in the Arm SMCCC, and I don't think any new ones were added in the 10 years that the specification existed... so we are really not going to run out of them any time soon. If we could get even one of those OENs for this purpose, we would have 64K FIDs to use up for our small, simple platform-independent API needs, which should last us a long while. We could maybe call it the "Secure Monitor range" and say the FIDs are specific to a certain implementation of Secure Monitor (e.g. TF-A). Then there could just be a header file in the TF-A sources that serves as the authoritative FID assignment table for TF-A, and anyone with a sufficiently useful idea (subject to TF-A maintainer review) for a platform-independent API like this could add it there by just uploading a patch. I recently argued for a similar "simple tag allocation" concept on https://github.com/FirmwareHandoff/firmware_handoff and it found support there, so I hope I'll be able to convince you that it would be useful for SMC FIDs as well?

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Updated invitation with note: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Jun 1, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been updated with a note: "Update for Techforum tomorrow...." Changed: description TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Jun 1, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time Topic: SVE Enablement in RMM for Realms. Presenter: Arunachalam GanapathyOverview: This discussion will cover the design and implementation details on how SVE and FP/AdvSIMD state of Non secure world and Realms are managed by RMM.=====================We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Trusted Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) 877 853 5247 US Toll-free 888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org tf-rmm(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Reply for tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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TF-A V2.9 Bundle Release

by Joanna Farley

Hi All, We are pleased to announce the formal release of Trusted Firmware-A version 2.9 bundle of project deliverables. This includes Trusted Firmware-A, Trusted Firmware-A Tests, Hafnium and TF-A OpenCI Scripts/Jobs 2.9 releases involving the tagging of multiple repositories. Aligned but not yet part of the release is Trusted Firmware-A Realm Management Monitor v0.3.0. These went live on 23rd May 2023. I would like to thank all of the contributors for their excellent work and achievements since the last release. Thanks Joanna Notable Features of the Version 2.9 Release are as follows: TF-A/EL3 Root World * New Features: * Support for PSCI OS initiated mode * Architecture feature support for FEAT_TCR2, FEAT_GCS, FEAT_HCX, FEAT_SME2, FEAT_PIE/POR, FEAT_MPAM. * System registers access trap handler * Introduction to dynamic detection of features * Refactoring: * Context management * RAS extension exception handling and crash reporting. * Distinguish between BL2 as TF-A entry point or BL2 running at EL3 exception level. * General Support * CPU Support for Chaberton and Blackhawk for TC2023 * Eighteen (18) Errata Mitigations for Cortex X2/X3/A710/A510/A78/A78C and Neoverse N2/V1 family CPU’S * Errata Management Firmware Interface implementation supported for version 1.0 of the public specification TF-A Boot BL1/BL2 * New Feature/Support * Support for Trusted Boot rooted into RSS RoT on TC2022 platform. * Support for PSA attestation scheme with Measured Boot rooted into RSS on TC2022 platform * Migration to mbedTLS 3.x as the default cryptography library retaining backwards compatibility with mbedTLS 2.x * Improvements and hardening of Arm CCA boot and attestation support. * Hardening efforts in the X.509 certificate parser, including a security fix (TFV-10 CVE-2022-47630) Hafnium/SEL2 SPM * FF-A v1.2 ALP0 Specification Early Adoption Support * Implemented ppartition info get ABI using GP registers. * Group0 secure interrupt handling delegation. * Improved console log ABI. * FF-A v1.1 REL0 Specification Support * Interrupt handling (S-EL0 partition signalling, added action to Other-S-Int, allow a physical interrupt to be routed to a specified PE). * Memory sharing (structures updates supporting FF-A backwards compatibility, share/lend/donate memory to multiple borrowers, normal/secure fragmented memory sharing). * Power management (events relayed to the SPMC and removed limitations). * Indirect messaging (buffer synchronization and ownership transfer rules). * General Support * SPMC manifest to declare non-secure and secure system memory address ranges. * Hardened SP manifest memory regions boot time validation. * CI migration to LLVM/clang 15.0.6 * Removal of non-VHE build and test configurations. * Added EL3 SPMC test configurations using the Hafnium's CI infrastructure. TF-A Tests * New Test Support * Errata Management Firmware Interface testing * FF-A v1.1 feature testing * Realm Management Extension feature testing * New Architecture Specific feature testing related to v8.8 * 1 new platform port (RD-N2-Cfg3) TF-RMM/REL2 * New Feature/Support * Added support to create Realms which can make use of SVE, if present in hardware. * Refactor and improved the Stage 1 translation table library lib/xlat API to better fit RMM usage. * Add PMU support for Realms as described by RMM v1.0 Beta0 specification. * Support getting DRAM info from the Boot manifest dynamically at runtime. * RMM can now support the 2nd DDR bank on FVP * Define a unit test framework using CppUTest for RMM. * Added unit tests for granule, slot-buffer and Stage 1 translation table lib xlat. * Improvements to fake-host and unit tests framework. * Build improvements in RMM Platform Support * 1 new platform added, the Allwinner T507 SoC * 26 platforms updated from 14 providers * 17 different driver updates OpenCI * First release done solely relying on Trustedfirmware.org OpenCI Patch Statistics Across all Repositories * 1403 Patches merged since v2.8 November 2022 release Please refer to the TF-A [1], Hafnium [2] and TF-A Tests [3] changelogs for the complete summary of changes from the previous release. TF-A [4], TF-A Test [5], Hafnium [6], TF-A OpenCI Scripts [7] and TF-A OpenCI Jobs [8] repositories are available along with the compatible TF-RMM repository [9] and changelog [10]. [1] https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/v2.9/change-log.html#id1 [2] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/hafnium/hafnium/+/HEAD/d… [3] https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/v2.9/change-log.html#vers… [4] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tag/?h=v2.9 [5] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/tf-a-tests.git/tag/?h=v2.9 [6] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/hafnium/hafnium.git/tag/?h=v2.9 [7] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/tf-a-ci-scripts.git/tag/?h=v2.9 [8] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/tf-a-job-configs.git/tag/?h=v2.9 [9] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-RMM/tf-rmm.git/tag/?h=tf-rmm-v0.3.0 [10] https://tf-rmm.readthedocs.io/en/tf-rmm-v0.3.0/about/change-log.html#v0-3-0

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Welcoming Yann Gautier as a new TF-A maintainer!

by Sandrine Bailleux

Hi, I am pleased to announce that Yann Gautier has now become one of the maintainers for TF-A. This decision is based on Yann's continued efforts and involvement in the project over the years. A patch is under review to reflect this in TF-A documentation: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/21060 Best regards, Sandrine (on behalf of all TF-A maintainers)

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Updated invitation: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Jun 1, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been updated Changed: description TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Jun 1, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time Provisional topic: SVE enablement for Realms. More details on this nearer the time....=====================We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Trusted Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) 877 853 5247 US Toll-free 888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Reply for tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Cancellation for TF-A Tech Forum today

by Joanna Farley

Apologies for late notice but the TF-A TechForum is cancelled today. We were hoping a topic would be ready however that is not the case. I try to send notifications a day before but over looked that last night. I will be provisionally updating the session on 2nd June with a topic. Thanks Joanna

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Canceled event: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu May 18, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been canceled. TF-A Tech Forum Thursday May 18, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Tr… Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)        877 853 5247 US Toll-free        888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h   Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Changelog for v2.9 Release

by Juan Pablo Conde

Hello everyone, Please take a look at the changelog for your respective platforms ahead of the TF-A v2.9 release. The changelog is autogenerated from the commit messages of the patches that have been merged since the v2.8 release. Here's your chance to give us guidance on any small manual adjustments you would like to see. Patch: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/20975 Rendered Version: https://ci-builds.trustedfirmware.org/static-files/7aZOCOLylZ7jd48oTAPxMxyU… Thanks, Juan Pablo

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TF-A v2.9 Release Schedule

by Joanna Farley

TF-A Community, This is to notify that we are planning to target the Trusted Firmware-A 2.9 release during the middle of May 2023 as part of the regular 6 month cadence. The aim is to consolidate all TF-A work since the 2.8 release. As part of this, a release candidate tag is targeted to be created and release activities commence from 10th May 2023 across all TF-A repositories. Essentially we will not merge any major enhancements from this date until the release is made. Please ensure any patches desired to make the 2.9 release are submitted in good time to be complete by 9th May 2023. Any major enhancement patches still open after that date will not be merged until after the release. This will involve the various repositories making up the broader TF-A project including the TF-A mainline, TF-A Tests, Hafnium, TF-A CI Scripts and TF-A CI Job. In addition a TF-RMM repository release will be made that is compatible with v2.9. We will endeavour minimise the disruption on patch merging and complete release activities ASAP after we start normally completing within 7-10 working days. Regards Joanna Farley

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Invitation: TF-A Tech Forum @ Every 2 weeks from 16:00 to 17:00 on Thursday (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by Joanna Farley

Hi Everyone, We cancelled the last TF-A Tech Forum meeting on 4th May as we had no topics. We also at this time don’t have a topic for this coming week TF-A Tech Forum on 18th May. So if anybody has a topic to discuss they can lead please reach out to me. Thanks Joanna From: linaro.org_havjv2figrh5egaiurb229pd8c(a)group.calendar.google.com When: 16:00 - 17:00 18 May 2023 Subject: [TF-A] Invitation: TF-A Tech Forum @ Every 2 weeks from 16:00 to 17:00 on Thursday (BST) (tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org) Regular bi weekly Trustedfirmware.org TF-A TechForum. I host this and its where we go to our community and present/discuss things live in public. Past sessions listed here https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/ Mailing list here if you want to subscribe. https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tf-a Project page here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/tf-a/ Abhishek never attended any of these. Cancelled if there is no topic to present. 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