[PATCH v5 01/19] dt-bindings: crypto: add Rambus CryptoManager Hub
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Mon Sep 28 11:18:48 PDT 2026
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 03:59:10PM -0700, Alex Ousherovitch wrote:
> Add device tree binding schema for the Rambus CryptoManager Hub (CMH)
> hardware crypto accelerator. The binding describes the parent
> SoC-level node with its SIC register region and one queue at N child
> node per mailbox the host owns, each carrying a reg (mailbox instance
> index), an optional interrupt, VCQ ring geometry (rambus,num-slots /
> rambus,slot-stride-bytes) and a rambus,cores affinity list. Which
> crypto cores are present is discovered from the SIC CORE_ENABLE
> register at probe, not described in the device tree.
>
> Register the 'rambus' vendor prefix for Rambus Inc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Ousherovitch <aousherovitch at rambus.com>
> Co-developed-by: Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <skrishnamoorthy at rambus.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <skrishnamoorthy at rambus.com>
> ---
> .../bindings/crypto/rambus,cmh-v1030.yaml | 151 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 153 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/rambus,cmh-v1030.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/rambus,cmh-v1030.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/rambus,cmh-v1030.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a0df35bdc371
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/rambus,cmh-v1030.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/crypto/rambus,cmh-v1030.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Rambus CryptoManager Hub (CMH) Hardware Crypto Accelerator
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Alex Ousherovitch <aousherovitch at rambus.com>
> + - Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <skrishnamoorthy at rambus.com>
> + - Joel Wittenauer <Joel.Wittenauer at cryptography.com>
> +
> +description: |
> + The Rambus CryptoManager Hub (CMH) is a hardware cryptographic accelerator
> + accessed via a mailbox-based VCQ (Virtual Command Queue) interface. The
> + host writes VCQ command sequences into per-mailbox DMA queue buffers and
> + rings a doorbell; the CMH eSW processes them and signals completion via
> + interrupt.
> +
> + The management host statically partitions the hardware mailboxes across
> + the SoC's host interfaces at integration time; the set of mailboxes a
> + given host owns is therefore fixed and not runtime-discoverable (a
> + mailbox locked to a host reads as unavailable in the SIC availability
> + register). Each owned mailbox is described by a child node. Which
> + crypto cores are present is a fixed silicon-build property indicated by
> + the SIC CORE_ENABLE register, so cores are not described in the device
> + tree. Clock and reset are owned by the management host; a node
> + describing a non-management host has no clock or reset provider of its
> + own, so clocks and reset-gpios are optional.
> +
> + CMH gates access to a locked mailbox by a hardware HOST ID presented on
> + the bus with every access, permitting only the owning host's ID. An
> + integration must present a single, stable HOST ID for all accesses to a
> + given mailbox, independent of the issuing CPU (relevant on SMP hosts
> + whose interconnect encodes the issuing CPU in the HOST ID).
> +
> +properties:
> + compatible:
> + items:
> + - not: {}
> + description: SoC-specific compatible, e.g. vendor,soc-cmh
> + - const: rambus,cmh-v1030
> +
> + reg:
> + maxItems: 1
> + description:
> + SIC (System Interface Controller) MMIO region. The registers of
> + mailbox instance N are at offset N * 0x1000 within this region.
> +
> + clocks:
> + minItems: 1
> + maxItems: 3
> + description:
> + The "core" functional clock, and optionally the half-rate "core-div2"
> + clock (present only on configurations with side-channel-protected
> + cores) and/or the "rt" real-time tick clock. See clock-names for the
> + valid combinations.
> +
> + clock-names:
> + oneOf:
> + - items:
> + - const: core
> + - items:
> + - const: core
> + - const: core-div2
> + - items:
> + - const: core
> + - const: rt
> + - items:
> + - const: core
> + - const: core-div2
> + - const: rt
Can be simplified to:
items:
- const: core
- enum: [ core-div2, rt ]
- const: rt
> +
> + reset-gpios:
> + maxItems: 1
> + description:
> + Host-controlled reset for the CryptoManager Hub. The hub has two
> + external, active-low reset inputs -- a power-on reset and a hard
> + reset; where a board routes one of them to a host GPIO, that line is
> + described here.
> +
> + "#address-cells":
> + const: 1
> +
> + "#size-cells":
> + const: 0
> +
> +patternProperties:
> + "^queue@[0-9a-f]+$":
> + type: object
> + description:
> + One node per hardware mailbox (VCQ command queue) this host owns.
> + The set of owned mailboxes is fixed by the management host at
> + integration time and enumerated here.
> + properties:
> + reg:
> + maxItems: 1
> + description:
> + 0-based mailbox instance index. The instance's registers are
> + at reg * 0x1000 within the SIC region.
Is there a maximum number of instances? If so, 'maximum: N'.
Rob
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