docs: document do_panic() and panic() helper functions

panic() and do_panic() are widely used helper functions called when
encountering a critical failure that cannot be recovered from.
Document them in porting guide. Also, remove panic() documentation
from PSCI guide(where it is unused anyways).

Signed-off-by: Manish Pandey <manish.pandey2@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ib0965cce56c03d0de5ac0d05d5714a6942793ede
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Manish Pandey 2022-11-02 16:30:09 +00:00
parent 46cc41d559
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2 changed files with 28 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -3156,6 +3156,34 @@ Register* (``GICD_IGROUPRn``) and *Interrupt Group Modifier Register*
(``GICD_IGRPMODRn``) is read to figure out whether the interrupt is configured
as Group 0 secure interrupt, Group 1 secure interrupt or Group 1 NS interrupt.
Common helper functions
-----------------------
Function : do_panic()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
Argument : void
Return : void
This API is called from assembly files when encountering a critical failure that
cannot be recovered from. It also invokes elx_panic() which allows to report a
crash from lower exception level. This function assumes that it is invoked from
a C runtime environment i.e. valid stack exists. This call **must not** return.
Function : panic()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
Argument : void
Return : void
This API called from C files when encountering a critical failure that cannot
be recovered from. This function in turn prints backtrace (if enabled) and calls
do_panic(). This call **must not** return.
Crash Reporting mechanism (in BL31)
-----------------------------------

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@ -337,16 +337,6 @@ at address ``addr`` (first argument) address and of size ``size`` (second argume
This function invalidates (flushes) the data cache for memory at address
``addr`` (first argument) address and of size ``size`` (second argument).
**Function : do_panic()**
::
Argument : void
Return : void
This function will be called by the PSCI library on encountering a critical
failure that cannot be recovered from. This function **must not** return.
CPU Context management API
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~