Adds a section on notifications used by OP-TEE, synchronous and asynchronous.
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org --- Documentation/staging/tee.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/staging/tee.rst b/Documentation/staging/tee.rst index 4d4b5f889603..37bdd097336f 100644 --- a/Documentation/staging/tee.rst +++ b/Documentation/staging/tee.rst @@ -184,6 +184,33 @@ order to support device enumeration. In other words, OP-TEE driver invokes this application to retrieve a list of Trusted Applications which can be registered as devices on the TEE bus.
+OP-TEE notifications +-------------------- + +There are two kinds of notifications that secure world can use to make +normal world aware of some event. + +1. Synchronous notifications delivered with ``OPTEE_RPC_CMD_NOTIFICATION`` + using the ``OPTEE_RPC_NOTIFICATION_SEND`` parameter. +2. Asynchronous notifications delivered with a combination of a non-secure + interrupt and a fast call from the non-secure interrupt handler. + +Synchronous notifications are limited by depending on RPC for delivery, +this is only usable when secure world is entered with a yielding call via +``OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG``. This excludes such notifications from secure +world interrupt handlers. + +An asynchronous notification is delivered via a non-secure interrupt to an +interrupt handler registered in the OP-TEE driver. The actual notification +value are retrieved with the fast call ``OPTEE_SMC_GET_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE``. + +One notification value ``OPTEE_SMC_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE_DO_BOTTOM_HALF`` has a +special meaning. When this value is received it means that normal world is +supposed to make a yielding call ``OPTEE_MSG_CMD_DO_BOTTOM_HALF``. This +call is done from the thread assisting the interrupt handler. This is a +building block for OP-TEE OS in secure world to implement the top half and +bottom half style of device drivers. + AMD-TEE driver ==============