[PATCH v6 1/6] arm/arm64: add smccc

Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander at linaro.org
Mon Nov 2 05:56:36 PST 2015


On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 11:51:19AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 09:21:23AM +0100, Jens Wiklander wrote:
> > Adds helpers to do SMC and HVC based on ARM SMC Calling Convention.
> > CONFIG_HAVE_SMCCC is enabled for architectures that may support
> > the SMC or HVC instruction. It's the responsibility of the caller
> > to know if the SMC instruction is supported by the platform.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/Kconfig               |  4 ++
> >  arch/arm/kernel/Makefile       |  2 +
> >  arch/arm/kernel/smccc-call.S   | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/kernel/smccc.c        | 18 ++++++++
> >  arch/arm64/Kconfig             |  4 ++
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile     |  1 +
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S | 43 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/smccc.c      | 18 ++++++++
> >  include/linux/arm-smccc.h      | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> This should probably be split so that the arm and arm64 patches can be
> merged separately.

OK, what's preferable two or three patches?

> 
> >  9 files changed, 237 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/smccc-call.S
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/smccc.c
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/smccc.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/arm-smccc.h
> 
> [...]
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > index 72ad724..29ab16a 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ config NEED_RET_TO_USER
> >  config ARCH_MTD_XIP
> >  	bool
> >  
> > +config HAVE_SMCCC
> > +	bool
> 
> If you want this to be selectable by multiple arches, wouldn't it be
> better to define it out in a common Kconfig file? Maybe HAVE_ARM_SMCCC
> too, for some better namespacing.

What's a good place, init/Kconfig?

> 
> An alternative is just making your TEE driver depend on ARM || ARM64
> and providing dummy smc wrappers that return an error code for cores
> older than ARMv7.

It's tempting, but it would mean adding this dummy function for all
architectures as it need to be exported to be usable from a load module.

> 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..9098bd8
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> > @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> > +/*
> > + * Copyright (c) 2015, Linaro Limited
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 as
> > + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> > + *
> > + */
> > +#include <linux/linkage.h>
> > +
> > +#define SMC_RES_X0_OFFS	0
> > +#define SMC_RES_X2_OFFS	16
> 
> These should be generates in asm-offsets.c

OK

> 
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * void smccc_smc(unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2,
> > + *		  unsigned long a3, unsigned long a4, unsigned long a5,
> > + *		  unsigned long a6, unsigned long a7, struct smccc_res *res)
> > + */
> > +ENTRY(smccc_smc)
> > +	smc	#0
> > +	ldr	x4, [sp]
> > +	stp	x0, x1, [x4, #SMC_RES_X0_OFFS]
> > +	stp	x2, x3, [x4, #SMC_RES_X2_OFFS]
> > +	ret
> > +ENDPROC(smccc_smc)
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * void smccc_hvc(unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2,
> > + *		  unsigned long a3, unsigned long a4, unsigned long a5,
> > + *		  unsigned long a6, unsigned long a7, struct smccc_res *res)
> > + */
> > +ENTRY(smccc_hvc)
> > +	hvc	#0
> > +	ldr	x4, [sp]
> > +	stp	x0, x1, [x4, #SMC_RES_X0_OFFS]
> > +	stp	x2, x3, [x4, #SMC_RES_X2_OFFS]
> > +	ret
> > +ENDPROC(smccc_hvc)
> 
> Maybe you could generate both of these from an asm macro that takes the
> first instruction as a parameter?

OK

> 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..ed13ba3
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> > +/*
> > + * Copyright (c) 2015, Linaro Limited
> > + *
> > + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> > + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
> > + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> > + *
> > + */
> > +#include <linux/export.h>
> > +#include <linux/arm-smccc.h>
> > +
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smccc_smc);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smccc_hvc);
> 
> Again, I think you want an arm_ prefix for some better namespacing.

Agree

> 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/arm-smccc.h b/include/linux/arm-smccc.h
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +#define SMCCC_SMC_32			(0 << 30)
> > +#define SMCCC_SMC_64			(1 << 30)
> > +#define SMCCC_FAST_CALL			(1 << 31)
> > +#define SMCCC_STD_CALL			(0 << 31)
> > +
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_MASK		0x3F
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_SHIFT		24
> > +
> > +#define SMCCC_FUNC_MASK			0xFFFF
> > +
> > +#define SMCCC_IS_FAST_CALL(smc_val)	((smc_val) & SMCCC_FAST_CALL)
> > +#define SMCCC_IS_64(smc_val)		((smc_val) & SMCCC_SMC_64)
> > +#define SMCCC_FUNC_NUM(smc_val)		((smc_val) & SMCCC_FUNC_MASK)
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_NUM(smc_val) \
> > +	(((smc_val) >> SMCCC_OWNER_SHIFT) & SMCCC_OWNER_MASK)
> > +
> > +#define SMCCC_CALL_VAL(type, calling_convention, owner, func_num) \
> > +			((type) | (calling_convention) | \
> > +			(((owner) & SMCCC_OWNER_MASK) << SMCCC_OWNER_SHIFT) | \
> > +			((func_num) & SMCCC_FUNC_MASK))
> > +
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_ARCH		0
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_CPU			1
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_SIP			2
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_OEM			3
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_STANDARD		4
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_TRUSTED_APP		48
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_TRUSTED_APP_END	49
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_TRUSTED_OS		50
> > +#define SMCCC_OWNER_TRUSTED_OS_END	63
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * struct smccc_res - Result from SMC/HVC call
> > + * @a0-a3 result values from registers 0 to 3
> > + */
> > +struct smccc_res {
> > +	unsigned long a0;
> > +	unsigned long a1;
> > +	unsigned long a2;
> > +	unsigned long a3;
> > +};
> 
> Are there any endianness considerations for this structure?

No, I can't find anything in the ARM SMC Calling Convention document
indicating that.

Thanks,
Jens



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