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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2026-09-30 12:47:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2026-09-30 12:47:29 +0100 |
| commit | d5ffed5a8e3daecdeecc2e18bfa04a2253d84f60 (patch) | |
| tree | 40df117b456007261f68c826e833963e84278cbf /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | 4d80b22865cc3e453aab4777948408c32f150483 (diff) | |
| parent | 5d034f17b24642b2a764c0e3a68b4c6937c9ba75 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frank.li/linux.git
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/se-cdev b/Documentation/ABI/testing/se-cdev new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0a353caeaab2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/se-cdev @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +What: /dev/<se>_mu[0-9]+_ch[0-9]+ +Date: Mar 2025 +KernelVersion: 6.8 +Contact: linux-imx@nxp.com, pankaj.gupta@nxp.com +Description: + NXP offers multiple hardware IP(s) for secure enclaves like EdgeLock- + Enclave(ELE), SECO. The character device file descriptors + /dev/<se>_mu*_ch* are the interface between userspace NXP's secure- + enclave shared library and the kernel driver. + + The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined and documented in + [include]<uapi/linux/se_ioctl.h> + ioctl(s) are used primarily for: + + - shared memory management + - allocation of I/O buffers + - getting mu info + - setting a dev-ctx as receiver to receive all the commands from FW + - getting SoC info + - send command and receive command response + + The following file operations are supported: + + open(2) + Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR. + + read(2) + Every read() from the opened character device context is waiting on + wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout, that gets set by the + registered mailbox callback function, indicating a message received + from the firmware on message-unit. + + write(2) + Every write() to the opened character device context needs to acquire + `fops_lock` + `se_if_cmd_lock` lock before sending message on to the + message unit. + + close(2) + Stops and frees up the I/O contexts that were associated + with the file descriptor. + +Users: https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-secure-enclave.git, + https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-smw.git, + crypto/skcipher, + drivers/nvmem/imx-ocotp-ele.c |
