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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@st.com>
Cc: broonie@kernel.org, robh@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	shawnguo@kernel.org, s.hauer@pengutronix.de,
	fabio.estevam@nxp.com, lkml@metux.net, loic.pallardy@st.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-imx@nxp.com, kernel@pengutronix.de,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	system-dt@lists.openampproject.org,
	stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Introduce bus firewall controller framework
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:36:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200128163628.GB30489@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200128153806.7780-1-benjamin.gaignard@st.com>

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:37:59PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> Bus firewall framework aims to provide a kernel API to set the configuration
> of the harware blocks in charge of busses access control.
>
> Framework architecture is inspirated by pinctrl framework:
> - a default configuration could be applied before bind the driver.
>   If a configuration could not be applied the driver is not bind
>   to avoid doing accesses on prohibited regions.
> - configurations could be apllied dynamically by drivers.
> - device node provides the bus firewall configurations.
>
> An example of bus firewall controller is STM32 ETZPC hardware block
> which got 3 possible configurations:
> - trust: hardware blocks are only accessible by software running on trust
>   zone (i.e op-tee firmware).
> - non-secure: hardware blocks are accessible by non-secure software (i.e.
>   linux kernel).
> - coprocessor: hardware blocks are only accessible by the coprocessor.
> Up to 94 hardware blocks of the soc could be managed by ETZPC.
>

/me confused. Is ETZPC accessible from the non-secure kernel space to
begin with ? If so, is it allowed to configure hardware blocks as secure
or trusted ? I am failing to understand the overall design of a system
with ETZPC controller.

> At least two other hardware blocks can take benefits of this:
> - ARM TZC-400: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.100325_0001_02_en/arm_corelink_tzc400_trustzone_address_space_controller_trm_100325_0001_02_en.pdf
>   which is able to manage up to 8 regions in address space.

I strongly have to disagree with the above and NACK any patch trying
to do so. AFAIK, no system designed has TZC with non-secure access.
So we simply can't access this in the kernel and hence need no driver
for the same. Please avoid adding above misleading information in future.

--
Regards,
Sudeep


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-28 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 15:37 [PATCH v2 0/7] Introduce bus firewall controller framework Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] dt-bindings: bus: Add firewall bindings Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] bus: Introduce firewall controller framework Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:52   ` Greg KH
2020-01-28 16:41     ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-28 16:57       ` Greg KH
2020-01-28 20:29         ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-29  5:49           ` Greg KH
2020-01-29  9:42           ` Linus Walleij
2020-01-29  9:52             ` Greg KH
2020-01-29 11:17               ` Mark Brown
2020-01-31  8:37                 ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-31  9:06                   ` Greg KH
2020-02-14 16:05                     ` Linus Walleij
2020-02-14 21:40                       ` Greg KH
2020-02-15 12:41                         ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-02-16  7:21                           ` Greg KH
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] base: Add calls to firewall controller Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] dt-bindings: bus: Add STM32 ETZPC " Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] bus: firewall: Add driver for STM32 ETZPC controller Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ARM: dts: stm32: Add firewall node for stm32mp157 SoC Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] ARM: dts: stm32: enable firewall controller node on stm32mp157c-ed1 Benjamin Gaignard
2020-01-28 16:36 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2020-01-28 16:46   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Introduce bus firewall controller framework Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-28 17:17     ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 20:06       ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-28 22:06         ` Robin Murphy
2020-01-29 13:40           ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-31 18:25             ` Robin Murphy
2020-02-03 13:16               ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-31 20:51             ` Florian Fainelli
2020-02-03 13:41               ` Benjamin GAIGNARD
2020-01-31 20:48         ` Florian Fainelli
2020-02-02 12:23           ` Mark Brown

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