docs: fusa: Define the requirements for XEN_VERSION hypercall.

Define the requirements which are common for all the commands.

Signed-off-by: Ayan Kumar Halder <ayan.kumar.halder@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
Hypercall
=========
Instruction
-----------
`XenSwdgn~arm64_hyp_instr~1`
Description:
Xen shall treat domain hvc instruction execution (with 0xEA1) as hypercall
requests.
Rationale:
Comments:
Hypercall is one of the communication mechanism between Xen and domains.
Domains use hypercalls for various requests to Xen.
The exception syndrome register should have the following values :-
ESR_EL2.ISS should be 0xEA1.
ESR_EL2.EC should be 0x16.
Covers:
- `XenProd~version_hyp_first_param~1`
- `XenProd~version_hyp_second_param~1`
Parameters
----------
`XenSwdgn~arm64_hyp_param~1`
Description:
Xen shall use x0 - x4 core registers to obtain the arguments for domain hypercall
requests.
Rationale:
Comments:
Xen shall read x0 for the first argument, x1 for the second argument and so on.
Covers:
- `XenProd~version_hyp_first_param~1`
- `XenProd~version_hyp_second_param~1`
Hypercall number
----------------
`XenSwdgn~arm64_hyp_num~1`
Description:
Xen shall read x16 to obtain the hypercall number.
Rationale:
Comments:
Covers:
- `XenProd~version_hyp_first_param~1`
- `XenProd~version_hyp_second_param~1`
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market-reqs/reqs
product-reqs/reqs
product-reqs/arm64/reqs
product-reqs/version_hypercall
design-reqs/arm64/generic-timer
design-reqs/arm64/sbsa-uart
design-reqs/arm64/hypercall
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Needs:
- XenProd
Version hypercall
-----------------
`XenMkt~version_hypercall~1`
Description:
Xen shall provide a hypercall for the domains to retrieve Xen's version, type
and compilation information.
Rationale:
Comments:
Needs:
- XenProd
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
Version hypercall
=================
First Parameter
---------------
`XenProd~version_hyp_first_param~1`
Description:
Xen shall treat the value stored in x0 as the command number for the hypercall.
Rationale:
Comments:
Covers:
- `XenMkt~version_hypercall~1`
Needs:
- XenSwdgn
Second Parameter
----------------
`XenProd~version_hyp_second_param~1`
Description:
Xen shall treat the value stored in x1 as a domain virtual address (mapped as
Normal Inner Write-Back Outer Write-Back Inner-Shareable) to buffer in domain's
memory.
Rationale:
Comments:
Covers:
- `XenMkt~version_hypercall~1`
Needs:
- XenSwdgn
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