1===================== 2Booting AArch64 Linux 3===================== 4 5Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 6 7Date : 07 September 2012 8 9This document is based on the ARM booting document by Russell King and 10is relevant to all public releases of the AArch64 Linux kernel. 11 12The AArch64 exception model is made up of a number of exception levels 13(EL0 - EL3), with EL0, EL1 and EL2 having a secure and a non-secure 14counterpart. EL2 is the hypervisor level, EL3 is the highest priority 15level and exists only in secure mode. Both are architecturally optional. 16 17For the purposes of this document, we will use the term `boot loader` 18simply to define all software that executes on the CPU(s) before control 19is passed to the Linux kernel. This may include secure monitor and 20hypervisor code, or it may just be a handful of instructions for 21preparing a minimal boot environment. 22 23Essentially, the boot loader should provide (as a minimum) the 24following: 25 261. Setup and initialise the RAM 272. Setup the device tree 283. Decompress the kernel image 294. Call the kernel image 30 31 321. Setup and initialise RAM 33--------------------------- 34 35Requirement: MANDATORY 36 37The boot loader is expected to find and initialise all RAM that the 38kernel will use for volatile data storage in the system. It performs 39this in a machine dependent manner. (It may use internal algorithms 40to automatically locate and size all RAM, or it may use knowledge of 41the RAM in the machine, or any other method the boot loader designer 42sees fit.) 43 44For Arm Confidential Compute Realms this includes ensuring that all 45protected RAM has a Realm IPA state (RIPAS) of "RAM". 46 47 482. Setup the device tree 49------------------------- 50 51Requirement: MANDATORY 52 53The device tree blob (dtb) must be placed on an 8-byte boundary and must 54not exceed 2 megabytes in size. Since the dtb will be mapped cacheable 55using blocks of up to 2 megabytes in size, it must not be placed within 56any 2M region which must be mapped with any specific attributes. 57 58NOTE: versions prior to v4.2 also require that the DTB be placed within 59the 512 MB region starting at text_offset bytes below the kernel Image. 60 613. Decompress the kernel image 62------------------------------ 63 64Requirement: OPTIONAL 65 66The AArch64 kernel does not currently provide a decompressor and 67therefore requires decompression (gzip etc.) to be performed by the boot 68loader if a compressed Image target (e.g. Image.gz) is used. For 69bootloaders that do not implement this requirement, the uncompressed 70Image target is available instead. 71 72 734. Call the kernel image 74------------------------ 75 76Requirement: MANDATORY 77 78The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:: 79 80 u32 code0; /* Executable code */ 81 u32 code1; /* Executable code */ 82 u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset, little endian */ 83 u64 image_size; /* Effective Image size, little endian */ 84 u64 flags; /* kernel flags, little endian */ 85 u64 res2 = 0; /* reserved */ 86 u64 res3 = 0; /* reserved */ 87 u64 res4 = 0; /* reserved */ 88 u32 magic = 0x644d5241; /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */ 89 u32 res5; /* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */ 90 91 92Header notes: 93 94- As of v3.17, all fields are little endian unless stated otherwise. 95 96- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext. 97 98- when booting through EFI, code0/code1 are initially skipped. 99 res5 is an offset to the PE header and the PE header has the EFI 100 entry point (efi_stub_entry). When the stub has done its work, it 101 jumps to code0 to resume the normal boot process. 102 103- Prior to v3.17, the endianness of text_offset was not specified. In 104 these cases image_size is zero and text_offset is 0x80000 in the 105 endianness of the kernel. Where image_size is non-zero image_size is 106 little-endian and must be respected. Where image_size is zero, 107 text_offset can be assumed to be 0x80000. 108 109- The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field 110 composed as follows: 111 112 ============= =============================================================== 113 Bit 0 Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE. 114 Bit 1-2 Kernel Page size. 115 116 * 0 - Unspecified. 117 * 1 - 4K 118 * 2 - 16K 119 * 3 - 64K 120 Bit 3 Kernel physical placement 121 122 0 123 2MB aligned base should be as close as possible 124 to the base of DRAM, since memory below it is not 125 accessible via the linear mapping 126 1 127 2MB aligned base such that all image_size bytes 128 counted from the start of the image are within 129 the 48-bit addressable range of physical memory 130 Bits 4-63 Reserved. 131 ============= =============================================================== 132 133- When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much 134 memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the 135 end of the kernel image. The amount of space required will vary 136 depending on selected features, and is effectively unbound. 137 138The Image must be placed text_offset bytes from a 2MB aligned base 139address anywhere in usable system RAM and called there. The region 140between the 2 MB aligned base address and the start of the image has no 141special significance to the kernel, and may be used for other purposes. 142At least image_size bytes from the start of the image must be free for 143use by the kernel. 144NOTE: versions prior to v4.6 cannot make use of memory below the 145physical offset of the Image so it is recommended that the Image be 146placed as close as possible to the start of system RAM. 147 148If an initrd/initramfs is passed to the kernel at boot, it must reside 149entirely within a 1 GB aligned physical memory window of up to 32 GB in 150size that fully covers the kernel Image as well. 151 152Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the start of the 153image) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel (e.g., with a 154memreserve region in the device tree) will be considered as available to 155the kernel. 156 157Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: 158 159- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get 160 corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save 161 you many hours of debug. 162 163- Primary CPU general-purpose register settings: 164 165 - x0 = physical address of device tree blob (dtb) in system RAM. 166 - x1 = 0 (reserved for future use) 167 - x2 = 0 (reserved for future use) 168 - x3 = 0 (reserved for future use) 169 170- CPU mode 171 172 All forms of interrupts must be masked in PSTATE.DAIF (Debug, SError, 173 IRQ and FIQ). 174 The CPU must be in non-secure state, either in EL2 (RECOMMENDED in order 175 to have access to the virtualisation extensions), or in EL1. 176 177- Caches, MMUs 178 179 The MMU must be off. 180 181 The instruction cache may be on or off, and must not hold any stale 182 entries corresponding to the loaded kernel image. 183 184 The address range corresponding to the loaded kernel image must be 185 cleaned to the PoC. In the presence of a system cache or other 186 coherent masters with caches enabled, this will typically require 187 cache maintenance by VA rather than set/way operations. 188 System caches which respect the architected cache maintenance by VA 189 operations must be configured and may be enabled. 190 System caches which do not respect architected cache maintenance by VA 191 operations (not recommended) must be configured and disabled. 192 193- Architected timers 194 195 CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency and CNTVOFF must 196 be programmed with a consistent value on all CPUs. If entering the 197 kernel at EL1, CNTHCTL_EL2 must have EL1PCTEN (bit 0) set where 198 available. 199 200- Coherency 201 202 All CPUs to be booted by the kernel must be part of the same coherency 203 domain on entry to the kernel. This may require IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED 204 initialisation to enable the receiving of maintenance operations on 205 each CPU. 206 207- System registers 208 209 All writable architected system registers at or below the exception 210 level where the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by 211 software at a higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN 212 state. 213 214 For all systems: 215 - If EL3 is present: 216 217 - SCR_EL3.FIQ must have the same value across all CPUs the kernel is 218 executing on. 219 - The value of SCR_EL3.FIQ must be the same as the one present at boot 220 time whenever the kernel is executing. 221 222 - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2: 223 224 - SCR_EL3.HCE (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b1. 225 226 For systems with a GICv5 interrupt controller to be used in v5 mode: 227 228 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 229 230 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_ACTIVERn_EL1 (bit 20) must be initialised to 0b1. 231 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_PRIORITYRn_EL1 (bit 19) must be initialised to 0b1. 232 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_PENDRn_EL1 (bit 18) must be initialised to 0b1. 233 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_ENABLERn_EL1 (bit 17) must be initialised to 0b1. 234 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_HMRn_EL1 (bit 16) must be initialised to 0b1. 235 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_IAFFIDR_EL1 (bit 7) must be initialised to 0b1. 236 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_ICSR_EL1 (bit 6) must be initialised to 0b1. 237 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_PCR_EL1 (bit 5) must be initialised to 0b1. 238 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_HPPIR_EL1 (bit 4) must be initialised to 0b1. 239 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_HAPR_EL1 (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1. 240 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_CR0_EL1 (bit 2) must be initialised to 0b1. 241 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_IDRn_EL1 (bit 1) must be initialised to 0b1. 242 - ICH_HFGRTR_EL2.ICC_APR_EL1 (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. 243 244 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_ACTIVERn_EL1 (bit 20) must be initialised to 0b1. 245 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_PRIORITYRn_EL1 (bit 19) must be initialised to 0b1. 246 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_PENDRn_EL1 (bit 18) must be initialised to 0b1. 247 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_PPI_ENABLERn_EL1 (bit 17) must be initialised to 0b1. 248 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_ICSR_EL1 (bit 6) must be initialised to 0b1. 249 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_PCR_EL1 (bit 5) must be initialised to 0b1. 250 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_CR0_EL1 (bit 2) must be initialised to 0b1. 251 - ICH_HFGWTR_EL2.ICC_APR_EL1 (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. 252 253 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICRCDNMIA (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b1. 254 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICRCDIA (bit 9) must be initialised to 0b1. 255 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDDI (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b1. 256 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDEOI (bit 7) must be initialised to 0b1. 257 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDHM (bit 6) must be initialised to 0b1. 258 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDRCFG (bit 5) must be initialised to 0b1. 259 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDPEND (bit 4) must be initialised to 0b1. 260 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDAFF (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1. 261 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDPRI (bit 2) must be initialised to 0b1. 262 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDDIS (bit 1) must be initialised to 0b1. 263 - ICH_HFGITR_EL2.GICCDEN (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. 264 265 - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv5 interrupt controller. 266 267 For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller to be used in v3 mode: 268 - If EL3 is present: 269 270 - ICC_SRE_EL3.Enable (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1. 271 - ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. 272 - ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE (bit 6) must be set to the same value across 273 all CPUs the kernel is executing on, and must stay constant 274 for the lifetime of the kernel. 275 276 - If the kernel is entered at EL1: 277 278 - ICC_SRE_EL2.Enable (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1 279 - ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. 280 281 - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv3 interrupt controller. 282 283 For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller to be used in 284 compatibility (v2) mode: 285 286 - If EL3 is present: 287 288 ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0. 289 290 - If the kernel is entered at EL1: 291 292 ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0. 293 294 - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv2 interrupt controller. 295 296 For CPUs with pointer authentication functionality: 297 298 - If EL3 is present: 299 300 - SCR_EL3.APK (bit 16) must be initialised to 0b1 301 - SCR_EL3.API (bit 17) must be initialised to 0b1 302 303 - If the kernel is entered at EL1: 304 305 - HCR_EL2.APK (bit 40) must be initialised to 0b1 306 - HCR_EL2.API (bit 41) must be initialised to 0b1 307 308 For CPUs with Activity Monitors Unit v1 (AMUv1) extension present: 309 310 - If EL3 is present: 311 312 - CPTR_EL3.TAM (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b0 313 - CPTR_EL2.TAM (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b0 314 - AMCNTENSET0_EL0 must be initialised to 0b1111 315 - AMCNTENSET1_EL0 must be initialised to a platform specific value 316 having 0b1 set for the corresponding bit for each of the auxiliary 317 counters present. 318 319 - If the kernel is entered at EL1: 320 321 - AMCNTENSET0_EL0 must be initialised to 0b1111 322 - AMCNTENSET1_EL0 must be initialised to a platform specific value 323 having 0b1 set for the corresponding bit for each of the auxiliary 324 counters present. 325 326 For CPUs with the Fine Grained Traps (FEAT_FGT) extension present: 327 328 - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2: 329 330 - SCR_EL3.FGTEn (bit 27) must be initialised to 0b1. 331 332 For CPUs with the Fine Grained Traps 2 (FEAT_FGT2) extension present: 333 334 - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2: 335 336 - SCR_EL3.FGTEn2 (bit 59) must be initialised to 0b1. 337 338 For CPUs with support for HCRX_EL2 (FEAT_HCX) present: 339 340 - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2: 341 342 - SCR_EL3.HXEn (bit 38) must be initialised to 0b1. 343 344 For CPUs with Advanced SIMD and floating point support: 345 346 - If EL3 is present: 347 348 - CPTR_EL3.TFP (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b0. 349 350 - If EL2 is present and the kernel is entered at EL1: 351 352 - CPTR_EL2.TFP (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b0. 353 354 For CPUs with the Scalable Vector Extension (FEAT_SVE) present: 355 356 - if EL3 is present: 357 358 - CPTR_EL3.EZ (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b1. 359 360 - ZCR_EL3.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the 361 kernel is executed on. 362 363 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 364 365 - CPTR_EL2.TZ (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b0. 366 367 - CPTR_EL2.ZEN (bits 17:16) must be initialised to 0b11. 368 369 - ZCR_EL2.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the 370 kernel will execute on. 371 372 For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension (FEAT_SME): 373 374 - If EL3 is present: 375 376 - CPTR_EL3.ESM (bit 12) must be initialised to 0b1. 377 378 - SCR_EL3.EnTP2 (bit 41) must be initialised to 0b1. 379 380 - SMCR_EL3.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the 381 kernel will execute on. 382 383 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 384 385 - CPTR_EL2.TSM (bit 12) must be initialised to 0b0. 386 387 - CPTR_EL2.SMEN (bits 25:24) must be initialised to 0b11. 388 389 - SCTLR_EL2.EnTP2 (bit 60) must be initialised to 0b1. 390 391 - SMCR_EL2.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the 392 kernel will execute on. 393 394 - HWFGRTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01. 395 396 - HWFGWTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01. 397 398 - HWFGRTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01. 399 400 - HWFGWTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01. 401 402 For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension FA64 feature (FEAT_SME_FA64): 403 404 - If EL3 is present: 405 406 - SMCR_EL3.FA64 (bit 31) must be initialised to 0b1. 407 408 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 409 410 - SMCR_EL2.FA64 (bit 31) must be initialised to 0b1. 411 412 For CPUs with the Memory Tagging Extension feature (FEAT_MTE2): 413 414 - If EL3 is present: 415 416 - SCR_EL3.ATA (bit 26) must be initialised to 0b1. 417 418 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 419 420 - HCR_EL2.ATA (bit 56) must be initialised to 0b1. 421 422 For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension version 2 (FEAT_SME2): 423 424 - If EL3 is present: 425 426 - SMCR_EL3.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1. 427 428 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 429 430 - SMCR_EL2.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1. 431 432 For CPUs with the Branch Record Buffer Extension (FEAT_BRBE): 433 434 - If EL3 is present: 435 436 - MDCR_EL3.SBRBE (bits 33:32) must be initialised to 0b01 or 0b11. 437 438 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 439 440 - BRBCR_EL2.CC (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1. 441 - BRBCR_EL2.MPRED (bit 4) must be initialised to 0b1. 442 443 - HDFGRTR_EL2.nBRBDATA (bit 61) must be initialised to 0b1. 444 - HDFGRTR_EL2.nBRBCTL (bit 60) must be initialised to 0b1. 445 - HDFGRTR_EL2.nBRBIDR (bit 59) must be initialised to 0b1. 446 447 - HDFGWTR_EL2.nBRBDATA (bit 61) must be initialised to 0b1. 448 - HDFGWTR_EL2.nBRBCTL (bit 60) must be initialised to 0b1. 449 450 - HFGITR_EL2.nBRBIALL (bit 56) must be initialised to 0b1. 451 - HFGITR_EL2.nBRBINJ (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b1. 452 453 For CPUs with the Performance Monitors Extension (FEAT_PMUv3p9): 454 455 - If EL3 is present: 456 457 - MDCR_EL3.EnPM2 (bit 7) must be initialised to 0b1. 458 459 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 460 461 - HDFGRTR2_EL2.nPMICNTR_EL0 (bit 2) must be initialised to 0b1. 462 - HDFGRTR2_EL2.nPMICFILTR_EL0 (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1. 463 - HDFGRTR2_EL2.nPMUACR_EL1 (bit 4) must be initialised to 0b1. 464 465 - HDFGWTR2_EL2.nPMICNTR_EL0 (bit 2) must be initialised to 0b1. 466 - HDFGWTR2_EL2.nPMICFILTR_EL0 (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1. 467 - HDFGWTR2_EL2.nPMUACR_EL1 (bit 4) must be initialised to 0b1. 468 469 For CPUs with SPE data source filtering (FEAT_SPE_FDS): 470 471 - If EL3 is present: 472 473 - MDCR_EL3.EnPMS3 (bit 42) must be initialised to 0b1. 474 475 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 476 477 - HDFGRTR2_EL2.nPMSDSFR_EL1 (bit 19) must be initialised to 0b1. 478 - HDFGWTR2_EL2.nPMSDSFR_EL1 (bit 19) must be initialised to 0b1. 479 480 For CPUs with Memory Copy and Memory Set instructions (FEAT_MOPS): 481 482 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 483 484 - HCRX_EL2.MSCEn (bit 11) must be initialised to 0b1. 485 486 - HCRX_EL2.MCE2 (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b1 and the hypervisor 487 must handle MOPS exceptions as described in :ref:`arm64_mops_hyp`. 488 489 For CPUs with the Extended Translation Control Register feature (FEAT_TCR2): 490 491 - If EL3 is present: 492 493 - SCR_EL3.TCR2En (bit 43) must be initialised to 0b1. 494 495 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 496 497 - HCRX_EL2.TCR2En (bit 14) must be initialised to 0b1. 498 499 For CPUs with the Stage 1 Permission Indirection Extension feature (FEAT_S1PIE): 500 501 - If EL3 is present: 502 503 - SCR_EL3.PIEn (bit 45) must be initialised to 0b1. 504 505 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 506 507 - HFGRTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1. 508 509 - HFGWTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1. 510 511 - HFGRTR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1. 512 513 - HFGRWR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1. 514 515 - For CPUs with Guarded Control Stacks (FEAT_GCS): 516 517 - GCSCR_EL1 must be initialised to 0. 518 519 - GCSCRE0_EL1 must be initialised to 0. 520 521 - If EL3 is present: 522 523 - SCR_EL3.GCSEn (bit 39) must be initialised to 0b1. 524 525 - If EL2 is present: 526 527 - GCSCR_EL2 must be initialised to 0. 528 529 - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present: 530 531 - HCRX_EL2.GCSEn must be initialised to 0b1. 532 533 - HFGITR_EL2.nGCSEPP (bit 59) must be initialised to 0b1. 534 535 - HFGITR_EL2.nGCSSTR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1. 536 537 - HFGITR_EL2.nGCSPUSHM_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1. 538 539 - HFGRTR_EL2.nGCS_EL1 (bit 53) must be initialised to 0b1. 540 541 - HFGRTR_EL2.nGCS_EL0 (bit 52) must be initialised to 0b1. 542 543 - HFGWTR_EL2.nGCS_EL1 (bit 53) must be initialised to 0b1. 544 545 - HFGWTR_EL2.nGCS_EL0 (bit 52) must be initialised to 0b1. 546 547 - For CPUs with debug architecture i.e FEAT_Debugv8pN (all versions): 548 549 - If EL3 is present: 550 551 - MDCR_EL3.TDA (bit 9) must be initialized to 0b0 552 553 - For CPUs with FEAT_PMUv3: 554 555 - If EL3 is present: 556 557 - MDCR_EL3.TPM (bit 6) must be initialized to 0b0 558 559The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected 560timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must 561enter the kernel in the same exception level. Where the values documented 562disable traps it is permissible for these traps to be enabled so long as 563those traps are handled transparently by higher exception levels as though 564the values documented were set. 565 566The boot loader is expected to enter the kernel on each CPU in the 567following manner: 568 569- The primary CPU must jump directly to the first instruction of the 570 kernel image. The device tree blob passed by this CPU must contain 571 an 'enable-method' property for each cpu node. The supported 572 enable-methods are described below. 573 574 It is expected that the bootloader will generate these device tree 575 properties and insert them into the blob prior to kernel entry. 576 577- CPUs with a "spin-table" enable-method must have a 'cpu-release-addr' 578 property in their cpu node. This property identifies a 579 naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location. 580 581 These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of 582 memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the 583 device tree) polling their cpu-release-addr location, which must be 584 contained in the reserved region. A wfe instruction may be inserted 585 to reduce the overhead of the busy-loop and a sev will be issued by 586 the primary CPU. When a read of the location pointed to by the 587 cpu-release-addr returns a non-zero value, the CPU must jump to this 588 value. The value will be written as a single 64-bit little-endian 589 value, so CPUs must convert the read value to their native endianness 590 before jumping to it. 591 592- CPUs with a "psci" enable method should remain outside of 593 the kernel (i.e. outside of the regions of memory described to the 594 kernel in the memory node, or in a reserved area of memory described 595 to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the device tree). The 596 kernel will issue CPU_ON calls as described in ARM document number ARM 597 DEN 0022A ("Power State Coordination Interface System Software on ARM 598 processors") to bring CPUs into the kernel. 599 600 The device tree should contain a 'psci' node, as described in 601 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml. 602 603- Secondary CPU general-purpose register settings 604 605 - x0 = 0 (reserved for future use) 606 - x1 = 0 (reserved for future use) 607 - x2 = 0 (reserved for future use) 608 - x3 = 0 (reserved for future use) 609