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diff --git a/Documentation/tee.txt b/Documentation/tee.txt deleted file mode 100644 index afacdf2fd1de..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/tee.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,127 +0,0 @@ -============= -TEE subsystem -============= - -This document describes the TEE subsystem in Linux. - -A TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) is a trusted OS running in some -secure environment, for example, TrustZone on ARM CPUs, or a separate -secure co-processor etc. A TEE driver handles the details needed to -communicate with the TEE. - -This subsystem deals with: - -- Registration of TEE drivers - -- Managing shared memory between Linux and the TEE - -- Providing a generic API to the TEE - -The TEE interface -================= - -include/uapi/linux/tee.h defines the generic interface to a TEE. - -User space (the client) connects to the driver by opening /dev/tee[0-9]* or -/dev/teepriv[0-9]*. - -- TEE_IOC_SHM_ALLOC allocates shared memory and returns a file descriptor - which user space can mmap. When user space doesn't need the file - descriptor any more, it should be closed. When shared memory isn't needed - any longer it should be unmapped with munmap() to allow the reuse of - memory. - -- TEE_IOC_VERSION lets user space know which TEE this driver handles and - its capabilities. - -- TEE_IOC_OPEN_SESSION opens a new session to a Trusted Application. - -- TEE_IOC_INVOKE invokes a function in a Trusted Application. - -- TEE_IOC_CANCEL may cancel an ongoing TEE_IOC_OPEN_SESSION or TEE_IOC_INVOKE. - -- TEE_IOC_CLOSE_SESSION closes a session to a Trusted Application. - -There are two classes of clients, normal clients and supplicants. The latter is -a helper process for the TEE to access resources in Linux, for example file -system access. A normal client opens /dev/tee[0-9]* and a supplicant opens -/dev/teepriv[0-9]. - -Much of the communication between clients and the TEE is opaque to the -driver. The main job for the driver is to receive requests from the -clients, forward them to the TEE and send back the results. In the case of -supplicants the communication goes in the other direction, the TEE sends -requests to the supplicant which then sends back the result. - -OP-TEE driver -============= - -The OP-TEE driver handles OP-TEE [1] based TEEs. Currently it is only the ARM -TrustZone based OP-TEE solution that is supported. - -Lowest level of communication with OP-TEE builds on ARM SMC Calling -Convention (SMCCC) [2], which is the foundation for OP-TEE's SMC interface -[3] used internally by the driver. Stacked on top of that is OP-TEE Message -Protocol [4]. - -OP-TEE SMC interface provides the basic functions required by SMCCC and some -additional functions specific for OP-TEE. The most interesting functions are: - -- OPTEE_SMC_FUNCID_CALLS_UID (part of SMCCC) returns the version information - which is then returned by TEE_IOC_VERSION - -- OPTEE_SMC_CALL_GET_OS_UUID returns the particular OP-TEE implementation, used - to tell, for instance, a TrustZone OP-TEE apart from an OP-TEE running on a - separate secure co-processor. - -- OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG drives the OP-TEE message protocol - -- OPTEE_SMC_GET_SHM_CONFIG lets the driver and OP-TEE agree on which memory - range to used for shared memory between Linux and OP-TEE. - -The GlobalPlatform TEE Client API [5] is implemented on top of the generic -TEE API. - -Picture of the relationship between the different components in the -OP-TEE architecture:: - - User space Kernel Secure world - ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - +--------+ +-------------+ - | Client | | Trusted | - +--------+ | Application | - /\ +-------------+ - || +----------+ /\ - || |tee- | || - || |supplicant| \/ - || +----------+ +-------------+ - \/ /\ | TEE Internal| - +-------+ || | API | - + TEE | || +--------+--------+ +-------------+ - | Client| || | TEE | OP-TEE | | OP-TEE | - | API | \/ | subsys | driver | | Trusted OS | - +-------+----------------+----+-------+----+-----------+-------------+ - | Generic TEE API | | OP-TEE MSG | - | IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*) | | SMCCC (OPTEE_SMC_CALL_*) | - +-----------------------------+ +------------------------------+ - -RPC (Remote Procedure Call) are requests from secure world to kernel driver -or tee-supplicant. An RPC is identified by a special range of SMCCC return -values from OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG. RPC messages which are intended for the -kernel are handled by the kernel driver. Other RPC messages will be forwarded to -tee-supplicant without further involvement of the driver, except switching -shared memory buffer representation. - -References -========== - -[1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os - -[2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028a/index.html - -[3] drivers/tee/optee/optee_smc.h - -[4] drivers/tee/optee/optee_msg.h - -[5] http://www.globalplatform.org/specificationsdevice.asp look for - "TEE Client API Specification v1.0" and click download. |