Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] docs: staging/tee.rst: add a section on OP-TEE notifications
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-08-18 18:28:04
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:18:44 +0100, Jens Wiklander [off-list ref] wrote:
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Adds a section on notifications used by OP-TEE, synchronous and asynchronous. Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org> --- Documentation/staging/tee.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/staging/tee.rst b/Documentation/staging/tee.rst index 4d4b5f889603..951f07dd026b 100644 --- a/Documentation/staging/tee.rst +++ b/Documentation/staging/tee.rst@@ -184,6 +184,35 @@ order to support device enumeration. In other words, OP-TEE driver invokes this application to retrieve a list of Trusted Applications which can be registered as devices on the TEE bus. +OP-TEE notifications +-------------------- + +There are two kinds of notifications that secure world can use to make +normal world aware of some event. + +1. Synchronous notifications delivered with ``OPTEE_RPC_CMD_NOTIFICATION`` + using the ``OPTEE_RPC_NOTIFICATION_SEND`` parameter. +2. Asynchronous notifications delivered with a combination of a non-secure + edge-triggered interrupt and a fast call from the non-secure interrupt + handler. + +Synchronous notifications are limited by depending on RPC for delivery, +this is only usable when secure world is entered with a yielding call via +``OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG``. This excludes such notifications from secure +world interrupt handlers. + +An asynchronous notification is delivered via a non-secure edge-triggered +interrupt to an interrupt handler registered in the OP-TEE driver. The +actual notification value are retrieved with the fast call +``OPTEE_SMC_GET_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE``.
One thing you may want to describe whether a single interrupt can represent multiple notification (multiple edge interrupts will happily be coalesced into a single one if not acknowledged before the next notification). Otherwise, Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel