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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.
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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.
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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.
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34DPSECI objects are detected by PMD using a resource container called DPRC (like
35in :ref:`dpaa2_overview`).
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37For example:
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39.. code-block:: console
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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
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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
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66.. code-block:: console
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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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101Features
102--------
103
104The DPAA2_SEC PMD has support for:
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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``
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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* LS2160A
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.
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142 .. code-block:: console
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144    <dpdk app> <EAL args> -b "fslmc:dpseci.x" -- ...
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146Where x is the device object id as configured in resource container.
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148Limitations
149-----------
150
151* Hash followed by Cipher mode is not supported
152* Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
153
154Prerequisites
155-------------
156
157DPAA2_SEC driver has similar pre-requisites as described in :ref:`dpaa2_overview`.
158The following dependencies are not part of DPDK and must be installed separately:
159
160See :doc:`../platform/dpaa2` for setup information
161
162Currently supported by DPDK:
163
164- NXP SDK **19.09+**.
165- MC Firmware version **10.18.0** and higher.
166- Supported architectures:  **arm64 LE**.
167
168- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
169
170
171Enabling logs
172-------------
173
174For enabling logs, use the following EAL parameter:
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176.. code-block:: console
177
178   ./your_crypto_application <EAL args> --log-level=pmd.crypto.dpaa2:<level>
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180Using ``crypto.dpaa2`` as log matching criteria, all Crypto PMD logs can be
181enabled which are lower than logging ``level``.
182