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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
81Limitations
82-----------
83
84* Chained mbufs are not supported.
85* Hash followed by Cipher mode is not supported
86* Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
87
88Prerequisites
89-------------
90
91DPAA_SEC driver has similar pre-requisites as described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
92The following dependencies are not part of DPDK and must be installed separately:
93
94* **NXP Linux SDK**
95
96  NXP Linux software development kit (SDK) includes support for the family
97  of QorIQ® ARM-Architecture-based system on chip (SoC) processors
98  and corresponding boards.
99
100  It includes the Linux board support packages (BSPs) for NXP SoCs,
101  a fully operational tool chain, kernel and board specific modules.
102
103  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>`_.
104
105* **DPDK Extras Scripts**
106
107  DPAA based resources can be configured easily with the help of ready scripts
108  as provided in the DPDK Extras repository.
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110  `DPDK Extras Scripts <https://github.com/qoriq-open-source/dpdk-extras>`_.
111
112Currently supported by DPDK:
113
114* NXP SDK **2.0+**.
115* Supported architectures:  **arm64 LE**.
116
117* Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
118
119Pre-Installation Configuration
120------------------------------
121
122Config File Options
123~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
124
125Basic DPAA config file options are described in :ref:`dpaa_overview`.
126In addition to those, the following options can be modified in the ``config`` file
127to enable DPAA_SEC PMD.
128
129Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
130
131* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_DPAA_SEC`` (default ``n``)
132  By default it is only enabled in defconfig_arm64-dpaa-* config.
133  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_dpaa_sec`` driver.
134
135* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_SEC_DEBUG_INIT`` (default ``n``)
136  Toggle display of initialization related driver messages
137
138* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_SEC_DEBUG_DRIVER`` (default ``n``)
139  Toggle display of driver runtime messages
140
141* ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_SEC_DEBUG_RX`` (default ``n``)
142  Toggle display of receive fast path run-time message
143
144* ``CONFIG_RTE_DPAA_SEC_PMD_MAX_NB_SESSIONS``
145  By default it is set as 2048 in defconfig_arm64-dpaa-* config.
146  It indicates Number of sessions to create in the session memory pool
147  on a single DPAA SEC device.
148
149Installations
150-------------
151To compile the DPAA_SEC PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
152following ``make`` command:
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154.. code-block:: console
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156   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
157   make config T=arm64-dpaa-linuxapp-gcc install
158