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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright 2017 NXP
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6NXP DPAA CAAM (DPAA_SEC)
7========================
8
9The DPAA_SEC PMD provides poll mode crypto driver support for NXP DPAA 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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24DPAA_SEC is one of the hardware resource in DPAA Architecture. More information
25on DPAA Architecture is described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
26
27DPAA_SEC PMD is one of DPAA drivers which interacts with QBMAN to create,
28configure and destroy the device instance using queue pair with CAAM portal.
29
30DPAA_SEC PMD also uses some of the other hardware resources like buffer pools,
31queues, queue portals to store and to enqueue/dequeue data to the hardware SEC.
32
33Implementation
34--------------
35
36SEC provides platform assurance by working with SecMon, which is a companion
37logic block that tracks the security state of the SOC. SEC is programmed by
38means of descriptors (not to be confused with frame descriptors (FDs)) that
39indicate the operations to be performed and link to the message and
40associated data. SEC incorporates two DMA engines to fetch the descriptors,
41read the message data, and write the results of the operations. The DMA
42engine provides a scatter/gather capability so that SEC can read and write
43data scattered in memory. SEC may be configured by means of software for
44dynamic changes in byte ordering. The default configuration for this version
45of SEC is little-endian mode.
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47Features
48--------
49
50The DPAA PMD has support for:
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52Cipher algorithms:
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54* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_3DES_CBC``
55* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CBC``
56* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CBC``
57* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CBC``
58* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CTR``
59* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CTR``
60* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CTR``
61
62Hash algorithms:
63
64* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA1_HMAC``
65* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA224_HMAC``
66* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA256_HMAC``
67* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA384_HMAC``
68* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA512_HMAC``
69* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_MD5_HMAC``
70
71AEAD algorithms:
72
73* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GCM``
74
75Supported DPAA SoCs
76--------------------
77
78* LS1046A/LS1026A
79* LS1043A/LS1023A
80
81Whitelisting & Blacklisting
82---------------------------
83
84For blacklisting a DPAA device, following commands can be used.
85
86 .. code-block:: console
87
88    <dpdk app> <EAL args> -b "dpaa_bus:dpaa-secX" -- ...
89    e.g. "dpaa_bus:dpaa-sec0"
90
91    or to disable all 4 SEC devices
92    -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec0"  -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec1" -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec2" -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec3"
93
94Limitations
95-----------
96
97* Hash followed by Cipher mode is not supported
98* Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
99
100Prerequisites
101-------------
102
103DPAA_SEC driver has similar pre-requisites as described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
104
105See :doc:`../platform/dpaa` for setup information
106
107
108- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
109
110Pre-Installation Configuration
111------------------------------
112
113Config File Options
114~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
115
116Basic DPAA config file options are described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
117In addition to those, the following options can be modified in the ``config`` file
118to enable DPAA_SEC PMD.
119
120Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
121
122* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_DPAA_SEC`` (default ``n``)
123  By default it is only enabled in defconfig_arm64-dpaa-* config.
124  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_dpaa_sec`` driver.
125
126Installations
127-------------
128To compile the DPAA_SEC PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
129following ``make`` command:
130
131.. code-block:: console
132
133   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
134   make config T=arm64-dpaa-linuxapp-gcc install
135
136Enabling logs
137-------------
138
139For enabling logs, use the following EAL parameter:
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141.. code-block:: console
142
143   ./your_crypto_application <EAL args> --log-level=pmd.crypto.dpaa:<level>
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145Using ``pmd.crypto.dpaa`` as log matching criteria, all Crypto PMD logs can be
146enabled which are lower than logging ``level``.
147