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31NXP DPAA CAAM (DPAA_SEC)
32========================
33
34The DPAA_SEC PMD provides poll mode crypto driver support for NXP DPAA CAAM
35hardware accelerator.
36
37Architecture
38------------
39
40SEC is the SOC's security engine, which serves as NXP's latest cryptographic
41acceleration and offloading hardware. It combines functions previously
42implemented in separate modules to create a modular and scalable acceleration
43and assurance engine. It also implements block encryption algorithms, stream
44cipher algorithms, hashing algorithms, public key algorithms, run-time
45integrity checking, and a hardware random number generator. SEC performs
46higher-level cryptographic operations than previous NXP cryptographic
47accelerators. This provides significant improvement to system level performance.
48
49DPAA_SEC is one of the hardware resource in DPAA Architecture. More information
50on DPAA Architecture is described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
51
52DPAA_SEC PMD is one of DPAA drivers which interacts with QBMAN to create,
53configure and destroy the device instance using queue pair with CAAM portal.
54
55DPAA_SEC PMD also uses some of the other hardware resources like buffer pools,
56queues, queue portals to store and to enqueue/dequeue data to the hardware SEC.
57
58Implementation
59--------------
60
61SEC provides platform assurance by working with SecMon, which is a companion
62logic block that tracks the security state of the SOC. SEC is programmed by
63means of descriptors (not to be confused with frame descriptors (FDs)) that
64indicate the operations to be performed and link to the message and
65associated data. SEC incorporates two DMA engines to fetch the descriptors,
66read the message data, and write the results of the operations. The DMA
67engine provides a scatter/gather capability so that SEC can read and write
68data scattered in memory. SEC may be configured by means of software for
69dynamic changes in byte ordering. The default configuration for this version
70of SEC is little-endian mode.
71
72Features
73--------
74
75The DPAA PMD has support for:
76
77Cipher algorithms:
78
79* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_3DES_CBC``
80* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CBC``
81* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CBC``
82* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CBC``
83* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CTR``
84* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CTR``
85* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CTR``
86
87Hash algorithms:
88
89* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA1_HMAC``
90* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA224_HMAC``
91* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA256_HMAC``
92* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA384_HMAC``
93* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA512_HMAC``
94* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_MD5_HMAC``
95
96AEAD algorithms:
97
98* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GCM``
99
100Supported DPAA SoCs
101--------------------
102
103* LS1046A/LS1026A
104* LS1043A/LS1023A
105
106Limitations
107-----------
108
109* Chained mbufs are not supported.
110* Hash followed by Cipher mode is not supported
111* Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
112
113Prerequisites
114-------------
115
116DPAA_SEC driver has similar pre-requisites as described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
117The following dependencies are not part of DPDK and must be installed separately:
118
119* **NXP Linux SDK**
120
121  NXP Linux software development kit (SDK) includes support for the family
122  of QorIQ® ARM-Architecture-based system on chip (SoC) processors
123  and corresponding boards.
124
125  It includes the Linux board support packages (BSPs) for NXP SoCs,
126  a fully operational tool chain, kernel and board specific modules.
127
128  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>`_.
129
130* **DPDK Extras Scripts**
131
132  DPAA based resources can be configured easily with the help of ready scripts
133  as provided in the DPDK Extras repository.
134
135  `DPDK Extras Scripts <https://github.com/qoriq-open-source/dpdk-extras>`_.
136
137Currently supported by DPDK:
138
139* NXP SDK **2.0+**.
140* Supported architectures:  **arm64 LE**.
141
142* Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
143
144Pre-Installation Configuration
145------------------------------
146
147Config File Options
148~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
149
150Basic DPAA config file options are described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
151In addition to those, the following options can be modified in the ``config`` file
152to enable DPAA_SEC PMD.
153
154Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
155
156* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_DPAA_SEC`` (default ``n``)
157  By default it is only enabled in defconfig_arm64-dpaa-* config.
158  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_dpaa_sec`` driver.
159
160* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_SEC_DEBUG_INIT`` (default ``n``)
161  Toggle display of initialization related driver messages
162
163* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_SEC_DEBUG_DRIVER`` (default ``n``)
164  Toggle display of driver runtime messages
165
166* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_SEC_DEBUG_RX`` (default ``n``)
167  Toggle display of receive fast path run-time message
168
169* ``CONFIG_RTE_DPAA_SEC_PMD_MAX_NB_SESSIONS``
170  By default it is set as 2048 in defconfig_arm64-dpaa-* config.
171  It indicates Number of sessions to create in the session memory pool
172  on a single DPAA SEC device.
173
174Installations
175-------------
176To compile the DPAA_SEC PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
177following ``make`` command:
178
179.. code-block:: console
180
181   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
182   make config T=arm64-dpaa-linuxapp-gcc install
183