Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 5 authors, 2016-08-31

[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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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:

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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
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