[PATCH v4 5/5] firmware: imx: adds miscdev

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Fri Jul 5 13:47:24 PDT 2024



On 7/5/24 6:52 AM, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/se-cdev b/Documentation/ABI/testing/se-cdev
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..97a5b2ca115d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/se-cdev
> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> +What:		/dev/<se>_mu[0-9]+_ch[0-9]+
> +Date:		May 2024
> +KernelVersion:	6.8
> +Contact:	linux-imx at nxp.com, pankaj.gupta at nxp.com
> +Description:
> +		NXP offers multiple hardware IP(s) for  secure enclaves like EdgeLock-

		                                     ^^^ one space only

> +		Enclave(ELE), SECO. The character device file descriptors
> +		/dev/<se>_mu*_ch* are the interface between user-space NXP's secure-

Please use "userspace" or "user space".

> +		enclave shared library and the kernel driver.
> +
> +		The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined and documented in
> +		[include]<linux/firmware/imx/ele_mu_ioctl.h>

End the line above with a period.

> +		 ioctl(s) are used primarily for:
> +			- shared memory management
> +			- allocation of I/O buffers
> +			- getting mu info
> +			- setting a dev-ctx as receiver to receive all the commands from FW
> +			- getting SoC info
> +			- send command and receive command response
> +
> +		The following file operations are supported:
> +
> +		open(2)
> +		  Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR.
> +
> +		read(2)
> +		  Every read() from the opened character device context is waiting on
> +		  wait_event_interruptible, that gets set by the registered mailbox callback
> +		  function, indicating a message received from the firmware on message-
> +		  unit.
> +
> +		write(2)
> +		  Every write() to the opened character device context needs to acquire
> +		  mailbox_lock before sending message on to the message unit.
> +
> +		close(2)
> +		  Stops and frees up the I/O contexts that were associated
> +		  with the file descriptor.
> +
> +Users:		https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-secure-enclave.git,
> +		https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-smw.git
> +		crypto/skcipher,
> +		drivers/nvmem/imx-ocotp-ele.c

-- 
~Randy



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