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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright 2016 NXP
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6NXP DPAA2 CAAM (DPAA2_SEC)
7==========================
8
9The DPAA2_SEC PMD provides poll mode crypto driver support for NXP DPAA2 CAAM
10hardware accelerator.
11
12Architecture
13------------
14
15SEC is the SOC's security engine, which serves as NXP's latest cryptographic
16acceleration and offloading hardware. It combines functions previously
17implemented in separate modules to create a modular and scalable acceleration
18and assurance engine. It also implements block encryption algorithms, stream
19cipher algorithms, hashing algorithms, public key algorithms, run-time
20integrity checking, and a hardware random number generator. SEC performs
21higher-level cryptographic operations than previous NXP cryptographic
22accelerators. This provides significant improvement to system level performance.
23
24DPAA2_SEC is one of the hardware resource in DPAA2 Architecture. More information
25on DPAA2 Architecture is described in :ref:`dpaa2_overview`.
26
27DPAA2_SEC PMD is one of DPAA2 drivers which interacts with Management Complex (MC)
28portal to access the hardware object - DPSECI. The MC provides access to create,
29discover, connect, configure and destroy dpseci objects in DPAA2_SEC PMD.
30
31DPAA2_SEC PMD also uses some of the other hardware resources like buffer pools,
32queues, queue portals to store and to enqueue/dequeue data to the hardware SEC.
33
34DPSECI objects are detected by PMD using a resource container called DPRC (like
35in :ref:`dpaa2_overview`).
36
37For example:
38
39.. code-block:: console
40
41    DPRC.1 (bus)
42      |
43      +--+--------+-------+-------+-------+---------+
44         |        |       |       |       |         |
45       DPMCP.1  DPIO.1  DPBP.1  DPNI.1  DPMAC.1  DPSECI.1
46       DPMCP.2  DPIO.2          DPNI.2  DPMAC.2  DPSECI.2
47       DPMCP.3
48
49Implementation
50--------------
51
52SEC provides platform assurance by working with SecMon, which is a companion
53logic block that tracks the security state of the SOC. SEC is programmed by
54means of descriptors (not to be confused with frame descriptors (FDs)) that
55indicate the operations to be performed and link to the message and
56associated data. SEC incorporates two DMA engines to fetch the descriptors,
57read the message data, and write the results of the operations. The DMA
58engine provides a scatter/gather capability so that SEC can read and write
59data scattered in memory. SEC may be configured by means of software for
60dynamic changes in byte ordering. The default configuration for this version
61of SEC is little-endian mode.
62
63A block diagram similar to dpaa2 NIC is shown below to show where DPAA2_SEC
64fits in the DPAA2 Bus model
65
66.. code-block:: console
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68
69                                       +----------------+
70                                       | DPDK DPAA2_SEC |
71                                       |     PMD        |
72                                       +----------------+       +------------+
73                                       |  MC SEC object |.......|  Mempool   |
74                    . . . . . . . . .  |   (DPSECI)     |       |  (DPBP)    |
75                   .                   +---+---+--------+       +-----+------+
76                  .                        ^   |                      .
77                 .                         |   |<enqueue,             .
78                .                          |   | dequeue>             .
79               .                           |   |                      .
80              .                        +---+---V----+                 .
81             .      . . . . . . . . . .| DPIO driver|                 .
82            .      .                   |  (DPIO)    |                 .
83           .      .                    +-----+------+                 .
84          .      .                     |  QBMAN     |                 .
85         .      .                      |  Driver    |                 .
86    +----+------+-------+              +-----+----- |                 .
87    |   dpaa2 bus       |                    |                        .
88    |   VFIO fslmc-bus  |....................|.........................
89    |                   |                    |
90    |     /bus/fslmc    |                    |
91    +-------------------+                    |
92                                             |
93    ========================== HARDWARE =====|=======================
94                                           DPIO
95                                             |
96                                           DPSECI---DPBP
97    =========================================|========================
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100
101Features
102--------
103
104The DPAA2_SEC PMD has support for:
105
106Cipher algorithms:
107
108* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_3DES_CBC``
109* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CBC``
110* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CBC``
111* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CBC``
112* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CTR``
113* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CTR``
114* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CTR``
115
116Hash algorithms:
117
118* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA1_HMAC``
119* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA224_HMAC``
120* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA256_HMAC``
121* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA384_HMAC``
122* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA512_HMAC``
123* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_MD5_HMAC``
124
125AEAD algorithms:
126
127* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GCM``
128
129Supported DPAA2 SoCs
130--------------------
131
132* LS2080A/LS2040A
133* LS2084A/LS2044A
134* LS2088A/LS2048A
135* LS1088A/LS1048A
136
137Whitelisting & Blacklisting
138---------------------------
139
140For blacklisting a DPAA2 SEC device, following commands can be used.
141
142 .. code-block:: console
143
144    <dpdk app> <EAL args> -b "fslmc:dpseci.x" -- ...
145
146Where x is the device object id as configured in resource container.
147
148Limitations
149-----------
150
151* Chained mbufs are not supported.
152* Hash followed by Cipher mode is not supported
153* Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
154
155Prerequisites
156-------------
157
158DPAA2_SEC driver has similar pre-requisites as described in :ref:`dpaa2_overview`.
159The following dependencies are not part of DPDK and must be installed separately:
160
161* **NXP Linux SDK**
162
163  NXP Linux software development kit (SDK) includes support for the family
164  of QorIQ® ARM-Architecture-based system on chip (SoC) processors
165  and corresponding boards.
166
167  It includes the Linux board support packages (BSPs) for NXP SoCs,
168  a fully operational tool chain, kernel and board specific modules.
169
170  SDK and related information can be obtained from:  `NXP QorIQ SDK  <http://www.nxp.com/products/software-and-tools/run-time-software/linux-sdk/linux-sdk-for-qoriq-processors:SDKLINUX>`_.
171
172* **DPDK Extra Scripts**
173
174  DPAA2 based resources can be configured easily with the help of ready scripts
175  as provided in the DPDK helper repository.
176
177  `DPDK Extra Scripts <https://github.com/qoriq-open-source/dpdk-extras>`_.
178
179Currently supported by DPDK:
180
181* NXP SDK **17.08+**.
182* MC Firmware version **10.3.1** and higher.
183* Supported architectures:  **arm64 LE**.
184
185* Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
186
187Pre-Installation Configuration
188------------------------------
189
190Config File Options
191~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
192
193Basic DPAA2 config file options are described in :ref:`dpaa2_overview`.
194In addition to those, the following options can be modified in the ``config`` file
195to enable DPAA2_SEC PMD.
196
197Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
198
199* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_DPAA2_SEC`` (default ``n``)
200  By default it is only enabled in defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-* config.
201  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_dpaa2_sec`` driver.
202
203* ``CONFIG_RTE_DPAA2_SEC_PMD_MAX_NB_SESSIONS``
204  By default it is set as 2048 in defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-* config.
205  It indicates Number of sessions to create in the session memory pool
206  on a single DPAA2 SEC device.
207
208Installations
209-------------
210To compile the DPAA2_SEC PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
211following ``make`` command:
212
213.. code-block:: console
214
215   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
216   make config T=arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc install
217
218Enabling logs
219-------------
220
221For enabling logs, use the following EAL parameter:
222
223.. code-block:: console
224
225   ./your_crypto_application <EAL args> --log-level=pmd.crypto.dpaa2:<level>
226
227Using ``crypto.dpaa2`` as log matching criteria, all Crypto PMD logs can be
228enabled which are lower than logging ``level``.
229