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[46.59.78.111]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l10-20020ac2430a000000b004fbb1bc1ae0sm2028077lfh.163.2023.07.31.05.15.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 31 Jul 2023 05:15:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: 01f72e92-2f9c-11ee-8613-37d641c3527e DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; t=1690805758; x=1691410558; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:subject:cc:to:from:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=gBs/FDkfYRgoPZr2GGaB11R97tPaKWbGqww2/VGZEhE=; b=mv6YspaDGeTi1WqN/SF31Z9c0+2y2PjHwqOv8iuM7N/eeNiBiSCC32vrqtXwnz7KUe z789FZY9VMV9eG/mcjtCNNHdeOp68HifeHRV5FRxCjuf/sV7Ly01q0OhT4qQC5Yjd2m+ 61wDbDACiqCaj8henceKNoRzaUV/7pGEBqTycamtITwEQuoLh4tupRelkonSXxhYb/3g NHlCBN+1RZg9Hx1+B7hOgUUIPYR3xy7n1wjbFiRVkpReyOTsIt0JdK0/dqFeywps6pV4 hX0muTBmlrXCl4lpm4dO4wyhjqX4axiB5LB5w5VKH08wDRlupW5Rt2tan5tIdWaTCZDl hdSw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1690805758; x=1691410558; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:subject:cc:to:from:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=gBs/FDkfYRgoPZr2GGaB11R97tPaKWbGqww2/VGZEhE=; b=PDDBG9nY2P+UiXDbsV7Ec2jGkw4qKX/mVNoppthWroX0sNCOiIrszQcfErx9N3CXuy 76Cw7zgsIu2ije9bl1Es0Cpz99K4Y3G7Km9RVp++5l5ZAfPu0rD+hH06vRshNxL9ZjKX hBM2OehhIOV66WW1B9e1m/Gwe6ZL+IISJk29wPuFjbqdL9T36c3K+hGzOvcqBNIHOB9G kfuKS15v+rPMmhjwrGAscqyAR4rl8tla4JJ0Xv2oxcbGRrTSh2zJHcNOhYvI+G4W9v0g XXt/H8cZTiGZo+Eyz4iLJQ4WXZyKTTyXGmAGy71ygFGKP4mg0syWZPL6oOUvKkLivdhd kN1w== X-Gm-Message-State: ABy/qLYpHpXGXgx3+Q+VJx5cbQ8RuECrWqXk7C0kbGpSfcy/ngO6b1h7 W+7i3+ryVw/twsN/dRzN1OJ7UPOuulLsvfGEFIM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APBJJlFHWP4N4SZZJsNudSOwkqOQW2CE9qoDGOLMrNEzkNM/i1gHC1PN5lQuy06JIsqlbb9MmrCm9w== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6512:3086:b0:4fe:629:9265 with SMTP id z6-20020a056512308600b004fe06299265mr7181260lfd.20.1690805758289; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 05:15:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jens Wiklander To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Bertrand.Marquis@arm.com, Marc Bonnici , Achin Gupta , Jens Wiklander , Henry Wang , Community Manager , Andrew Cooper , George Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , Anthony PERARD Subject: [XEN PATCH v11 14/14] docs: add Arm FF-A mediator Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:15:36 +0200 Message-Id: <20230731121536.934239-15-jens.wiklander@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20230731121536.934239-1-jens.wiklander@linaro.org> References: <20230731121536.934239-1-jens.wiklander@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @linaro.org) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1690805786880100019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Describes a FF-A version 1.1 [1] mediator to communicate with a Secure Partition in secure world. [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0077/latest Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander Reviewed-by: Henry Wang Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis --- v10->v11 - Add a CHANGELOG.md entry as requested --- CHANGELOG.md | 3 ++- SUPPORT.md | 9 +++++++++ docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in | 15 +++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 7d7e0590f8c6..f24c8c4b8011 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepach= angelog.com/en/1.0.0/) - xl/libxl can customize SMBIOS strings for HVM guests. - Add support for AVX512-FP16 on x86. - On Arm, Xen supports guests running SVE/SVE2 instructions. (Tech Previe= w) - + - On Arm, add suport for Firmware Framework for Arm A-profile (FF-A) Medi= ator + (Tech Preview) =20 ## [4.17.0](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=3Dxen.git;a=3Dshortlog;h=3DR= ELEASE-4.17.0) - 2022-12-12 =20 diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md index 35a6249e03b2..fe512762cee7 100644 --- a/SUPPORT.md +++ b/SUPPORT.md @@ -840,6 +840,15 @@ that covers the DMA of the device to be passed through. =20 No support for QEMU backends in a 16K or 64K domain. =20 +### ARM: Firmware Framework for Arm A-profile (FF-A) Mediator + + Status, Arm64: Tech Preview + +There are still some code paths where a vCPU may hog a pCPU longer than +necessary. The FF-A mediator is not yet implemented for Arm32. Part of the +FF-A specification is not supported, see the top comment in +xen/arch/arm/tee/ffa.c for limitations. + ### ARM: Guest Device Tree support =20 Status: Supported diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in b/docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in index a2bccd5b48a1..ec4864958e0e 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in @@ -1656,6 +1656,21 @@ in OP-TEE. =20 This feature is a B. =20 +=3Ditem B + +B Allow a guest to communicate via FF-A with Secure Partitions +(SP), default false. + +Currently only a small subset of the FF-A specification is supported. Just +enough to communicate with OP-TEE. In general only direct messaging and +sharing memory with one SP. More advanced use cases where memory might be +shared or donated to multiple SPs are not supported. + +See L for more +information about FF-A. + +This feature is a B. + =3Dback =20 =3Dback --=20 2.34.1