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  • * [PATCH 1/2] ARM: smccc-call: Use r12 to route secure monitor calls on TI platforms
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    @ 2017-09-19 14:19 ` Mark Rutland
      2017-09-19 15:07   ` Andrew F. Davis
      1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
    From: Mark Rutland @ 2017-09-19 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: linux-arm-kernel
    
    On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 03:50:04PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
    > Our ROM Secure Monitor(SM) uses the value in r12 to determine which
    > service is being requested by an SMC call. This inline with the ARM
    > recommended SMC Calling Convention(SMCCC), which partitions the values
    > in R0 for this task, OP-TEE's SM follows the ARM recommended convention.
    
    I can't parse this last sentence. What exactly is inline with the SMCCC?
    
    AFAICT, the SMCCC says r12 is "The Intra-Procedure-call scratch
    register", which is not a paramter, service ID, etc.
    
    > We need a way to signal that a call is for the OP-TEE SM and not for
    > the ROM SM in a way that is safe for the ROM SM, in case it is still
    > present. We do this by putting a value of 0x200 in r12 when the call
    > is for OP-TEE or any other ARM by modifying the SMCCC caller function.
    
    So IIUC, you have a secure monitor which is not SMCCC compliant, but you
    want to use it at the same time as OP-TEE, which is SMCCC compliant.
    
    It would be much better to have a new version of that monitor that was
    SMCCC compliant, and have to update the code for that, than to have to
    move OP-TEE away from standards compliance.
    
    > There are four combinations of events:
    > 
    > If the ROM SM is present and we make a legacy style SMC call, as we
    > do in early boot, the call will not have r12 set to 0x200 as these
    > calls go through existing mach-omap2/ SMC handlers, so all is well.
    > 
    > If the ROM SM is present and we make an SMCCC style call, r12 will be
    > set to 0x200 and ROM SM will see this as an invalid service call and
    > safely return to the normal world.
    
    So you're going to describe OP-TEE as present even when it's not!?
    
    That's simply wrong.
    
    > If OP-TEE is present and we make a legacy style SMC call, r12 will
    > not be set to 0x200, and OP-TEE will emulate the functionality that
    > the call is requesting.
    
    AFAICT this means that OP-TEE completely replaces your existing monitor.
    
    Please fix this properly. Implement SMCCC-compliant versions of those
    calls you wish to retain, and come up with a new binding for those.
    Describe that in the DT for systems which have OP-TEE providing these
    services.
    
    Systems with the old monitor should have that descrbied in their DT, and
    not OP-TEE.
    
    That completely removes the need to come up with a new OP-TEE binding
    extension, and aligns your FW for forward compatibility with future
    services.
    
    Thanks,
    Mark.
    
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    2017-09-19 13:36   ` [PATCH 2/2] tee: optee: allow selection of ti-smc as a calling method Rob Herring
    2017-09-19 15:54     ` Andrew F. Davis
    2017-09-19 21:10       ` Rob Herring
    2017-09-19 14:09   ` Mark Rutland
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    2017-09-19 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: smccc-call: Use r12 to route secure monitor calls on TI platforms Mark Rutland
    2017-09-19 15:07   ` Andrew F. Davis
    2017-09-21 14:47     ` Mark Rutland
    

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