[PATCH 1/2] arm64: kernel: Add SMC Session ID to results
From: Andy Gross <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-30 20:16:49
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From: Andy Gross <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-30 20:16:49
Also in:
linux-arm-msm, lkml
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 05:38:31PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: [...]quoted
This all comes about because the firmware generates a session id for the SMC call and jams it in x6. The assembly on the non-secure side is written with a tight loop around the smc instruction so that when the return value indicates "interrupted", x6 is kept intact and the non-secure OS can jump back to the secure OS without register reloading. Perhaps referring to x6 as result value is not correct because it's really a session id that's irrelevant once the smc call completes.Sorry I missed this bit. The session id is _generated_ by secure firmware (probably only when the value passed in x6 == 0 (?)) and actually returned to the caller so that subsequent (interrupted) calls can re-issue the same value, is that correct ? If that's the case the value in x6 is a result value from an SMCCC perspective and your current FW is not SMCCC compliant.
So is Will's solution to this ok? If so I will respin with the minor change to get it working and resend. If not, do I roll my own smccc wrapper? Regards, Andy