SPM: Introduce Secure Partition Manager

A Secure Partition is a software execution environment instantiated in
S-EL0 that can be used to implement simple management and security
services. Since S-EL0 is an unprivileged exception level, a Secure
Partition relies on privileged firmware e.g. ARM Trusted Firmware to be
granted access to system and processor resources. Essentially, it is a
software sandbox that runs under the control of privileged software in
the Secure World and accesses the following system resources:

- Memory and device regions in the system address map.
- PE system registers.
- A range of asynchronous exceptions e.g. interrupts.
- A range of synchronous exceptions e.g. SMC function identifiers.

A Secure Partition enables privileged firmware to implement only the
absolutely essential secure services in EL3 and instantiate the rest in
a partition. Since the partition executes in S-EL0, its implementation
cannot be overly complex.

The component in ARM Trusted Firmware responsible for managing a Secure
Partition is called the Secure Partition Manager (SPM). The SPM is
responsible for the following:

- Validating and allocating resources requested by a Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used for initialising a
  Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by the normal world
  and other secure services for accessing the services exported by a
  Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by a Secure
  Partition to fulfil service requests.
- Instantiating the software execution environment required by a Secure
  Partition to fulfil a service request.

Change-Id: I6f7862d6bba8732db5b73f54e789d717a35e802f
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ */
+
+#ifndef __SPM_SHIM_PRIVATE__
+#define __SPM_SHIM_PRIVATE__
+
+#include <types.h>
+
+/* Assembly source */
+extern uintptr_t spm_shim_exceptions_ptr;
+
+/* Linker symbols */
+extern uintptr_t __SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_START__;
+extern uintptr_t __SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_END__;
+
+/* Definitions */
+#define SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_PTR		(uintptr_t)(&spm_shim_exceptions_ptr)
+
+#define SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_START	\
+	(uintptr_t)(&__SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_START__)
+#define SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_END		\
+	(uintptr_t)(&__SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_END__)
+#define SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_SIZE	\
+	(SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_END - SPM_SHIM_EXCEPTIONS_START)
+
+#endif /* __SPM_SHIM_PRIVATE__ */