September 2023 - tf-rmm - lists.trustedfirmware.org

Firmware-A v2.10 release code freeze notification

by Olivier Deprez

Hi All, The next release of the Firmware-A bundle of projects tagged v2.10 has an expected code freeze date of Nov, 7th 2023. Refer to the Release Cadence section from TF-A documentation (https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/docs/about…). Closing out the release takes around 6-10 working days after the code freeze. Preparations tasks for v2.10 release should start in coming month. We want to ensure that planned feature patches for the release are submitted in good time for the review process to conclude. As a kind recommendation and a matter of sharing CI resources, please launch CI jobs with care e.g.: -For simple platform, docs changes, or one liners, use Allow-CI+1 label (no need for a full Allow-CI+2 run). -For large patch stacks use Allow-CI+2 at top of the patch stack (and if required few individual Allow+CI+1 in the middle of the patch stack). -Carefully analyze results and fix the change if required, before launching new jobs on the same change. -If after issuing a Allow-CI+1 or Allow-CI+2 label a Build start notice is not added as a gerrit comment on the patch right away please be patient as under heavy load CI jobs can be queued and in extreme conditions it can be over an hour before the Build start notice is issued. Issuing another Allow-CI+1 or Allow-CI+2 label will just result in an additional job being queued. Thanks & Regards, Olivier.

5 days, 1 hour

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TF-RMM aligned to RMM v1.0 EAC2 specification

by Soby Mathew

Hi Everyone, The EAC2 development branch has been merged back to the `main` and tagged (https://github.com/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/releases/tag/rmm-spec-v1.0-eac2). TF-RMM is now RMM v1.0 EAC2 [1] compliant and all the corresponding Normal world software entities need to be updated to this version of ABI to work with RMM. Please find the details below: 1) Linux Linux repo: git@git.gitlab.arm.com:linux-arm/linux-cca.git KVM/Host branch : cca-host/rmm-v1.0-eac2 (https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca/-/tree/cca-host/rmm-v1.0-eac2) Linux Guest branch : cca-guest/rmm-v1.0-eac2 (https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca/-/tree/cca-guest/rmm-v1.0-eac2) Full Linux stack branch : cca-full/rmm-v1.0-eac2 (https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca/-/tree/cca-full/rmm-v1.0-eac2) 2) kvmtool repo: git@git.gitlab.arm.com:linux-arm/kvmtool-cca.git eac2 branch: cca/rmm-v1.0-eac2 (https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/kvmtool-cca/-/tree/cca/rmm-v1.0-eac2) 3) kvm-unit-tests repo: git@git.gitlab.arm.com:linux-arm/kvm-unit-tests-cca.git eac2 branch: cca/rmm-v1.0-eac2 (https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/kvm-unit-tests-cca/-/tree/cca/rmm-v1.0-eac2) The tf-a-tests changes have been merged to master as found here : https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/tf-a-tests.git/commit/?id=e3c73d226e7a… Best Regards Soby Mathew [1] : https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0137/1-0eac2/?lang=en

7 months, 3 weeks

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RMM Coverage report available on GitHub

by Javier Almansa Sobrino

Hello all, We have added a GitHub workflow to RMM which allows the former to build and run the unittests along with their corresponding coverage report and upload such report in .html format to GitHub. The workflow is automatically triggered when new pushes are done to the main branch. In order to access to the coverage report, you can either * click on the green check symbol next to the latest commit, from there to "details" on the "Coverage on unittests for RMM" action on the pop up window and once in the action page, click on "Summary" on the left side menu. The report will appear in the "Artifacts" section as a .zip file with the name "coverage-results" or * On the TF-RMM repo main page, click on "Actions" and then click on the "Coverage on unittests for RMM" action corresponding to the latest commit. You can then access to the report as explained on the previous bullet. Please keep in mind that reports older than 90 days will be automatically deleted. Thanks, Javier IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

7 months, 3 weeks

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SME support in RMM

by Arunachalam Ganapathy

Hi All, Please review the patch-set that adds the functionality in RMM to manage Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) context. If the CPU supports SME and if Realm accesses FPU/SVE functionality then NS SME state is saved to allow Realm to use FPU/SVE register state. https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:%22rmm_sme%22+(status:open%20OR%… Brief summary of changes made in different components: RMM: - Introduces SIMD context and exports APIs to the runtime component of RMM to initialize, save, restore, and switch SIMD context. - Adds SME support in RMM to manage NS SME context. Supports SVE+SME config and SME only config. - Handles SVE hint bit passed in RMI SMCs - Handles SME exceptions from Realms https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:%22rmm_sme%22+(status:open%20OR%… TF-A: - Enables FEAT_SME for RMM - Passes SMCCCv1.3 SVE hint bit in SMC function ID to RMM tf-a-tests: - There are changes in common lib routines for sve, sme so that testcases running in NS-EL2, S-EL1, R-EL1 can use these helper routines. - Adds helper routines to read, write, compare FPU and SVE Z, P, FFR registers - Adds SMCCCv1.3 SVE hint bit support in TFTF framework - Enables SME/SME2 during arch init - Adds SME helper routines and extends SVE lib routines to support streaming SVE mode. https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:%22rmm_sme%22+(status:open%20OR%… Thanks, Arun

8 months

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Breaking dependency between 'run-coverage' and 'run-unittests' build rules

by Javier Almansa Sobrino

Hello all, We currently have a patch under review [1] which will break the existing dependency between 'run-converage' and 'run-unittests' rules in the RMM build system. This means that once the patch is merged, 'run-coverage' will not build and run RMM unittests. If ran in isolation, it will generate an empty coverage report by default. This allows to get coverage analysis for especific tests rather than for all the unittests, which makes the process of writting unittests for new modules easier as we can have a picture of the current coverage for such modules without being tainted by the rest of the unittests. Please note that in order to run coverage analysis on the whole existing set of unittests (as done previously by 'run-coverage') we need to invoke 'run-unittests' before. The patch, which is currently open for discussion and review, includes instructions on how to run 'run-coverage' to get different types of analysis. Thanks, Javier [1]: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/+/23039 IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

8 months

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Announcing first draft of TF-RMM Threat Model ready for review

by Javier Almansa Sobrino

Hello everyone, I would like to let you know that there is a first draft of the Threat Model for the TF-RMM ready for review. You can check it out and leave your comments here: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/+/20477 Best regards, Javier IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

8 months

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Plan for RME support in QEMU

by Jean-Philippe Brucker

Hello, QEMU 8.1 added support for FEAT_RME. It is experimental, enabled with '-cpu max,x-rme=on', and requires fixes that will be available in QEMU 8.2. I'm working on adding support to TF-A and TF-RMM. I just submitted some TF-A patches for review (topic qemu-rme) that enable the feature for the virt platform, and intend to send the necessary changes for TF-RMM within a week or so. Without RMM, the Test Realm Payload is included into the FIP for light testing. After the TF-A and TF-RMM changes, I'd like to add support for the SBSA platform as well, which should be a relatively small change once the common QEMU support is merged. Thanks, Jean --- Building TF-A for QEMU with RME support: make -j CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=qemu DEBUG=1 RMM=path/to/rmm/build/Debug/rmm.img ENABLE_RME=1 BL33=path/to/QEMU_EFI.fd QEMU_USE_GIC_DRIVER=QEMU_GICV3 all fip dd if=tf-a/build/qemu/debug/bl1.bin of=flash.bin bs=4096 conv=notrunc dd if=tf-a//build/qemu/debug/fip.bin of=flash.bin seek=64 bs=4096 conv=notrunc Running QEMU, for example: qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu max,x-rme=on,sme=off -m 3G -smp 8 -M virt,gic-version=3,virtualization=on,secure=on,acpi=off -bios flash.bin -kernel linux/arch/arm64/boot/Image -initrd path/to/initrd -append console=ttyAMA0 -nographic ... [ 0.825891] kvm [1]: Using prototype RMM support (version 66.0) SMC_RMM_FEATURES 0 > RMI_SUCCESS 33403e30

8 months

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New TrustedFirmware Discord Server

by Don Harbin

Hi All, Note you may have received another instance of this note but when I attempted to send to all TF ML's simultaneously it seemed to fail, so sending to each one at a time. Sorry about that. :/ We've created a Discord Server for real time chats/sharing. This solution comes at no cost to the project, is set up with channels for each project, includes a #general channel, and supports direct 1-1 chats between members, all with the goal of improving collaboration between trustedfirmware.org developers. We encourage all to join! :) Instructions for joining can be found on the TF.org FAQ page <https://www.trustedfirmware.org/faq/>. See you all there and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! Don Harbin TrustedFirmware Community Manager don.harbin(a)linaro.org

8 months, 2 weeks

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New TrustedFirmware Discord Server

by don.harbin＠linaro.org

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8 months, 2 weeks

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Coverity Scan: Analysis completed for TF-RMM/tf-rmm

by scan-admin＠coverity.com

Your request for analysis of TF-RMM/tf-rmm has been completed successfully. The results are available at https://u15810271.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=HRESupC-2F2Czv4BOaCWWCy7my0P… Build ID: 555541 Analysis Summary: New defects found: 0 Defects eliminated: 0

8 months, 2 weeks

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