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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Asynchronous notifications from secure world
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Hello Sudeep and all,

On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 19:52, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sumit,
>
> I was holding off you reply as I didn't have all the background on this.
> Achin did mention that this is preparatory work for FFA notifications.
> I did mention to him that this is more than that, it is custom extension
> to address what FF-A notification is trying to in standard way.
>
> I share same opinion as Marc Z.
>
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 11:22:23AM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 18:16, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > >
> > > I don't care about OP-TEE. If you are proposing a contract between S
> > > and NS, it has to be TEE and OS independent. That's how the
> > > architecture works.
> > >
> >
> > Agree, here we are not proposing a common contract among the S and NS
> > world that every TEE (based on Arm TrustZone) will use to communicate
> > with REE (Linux in our case) but rather an OP-TEE specific
> > notifications feature that is built on top of OP-TEE specific ABIs.
> >
> > And I can see your arguments coming from an FFA perspective but there
> > are platforms like the ones based on Armv7 which don't support FFA
> > ABI. Maybe Jens can elaborate how this feature will fit in when FFA
> > comes into picture?
> >
>
> I can understand that but won't those platforms add the support both in
> the kernel(current series) and secure world to address notifications.
> While you could argue that it is small extension to what is already prese=
nt
> but I prefer they support FF-A is they need such a support instead of add=
ing
> custom mechanisms. It is hard to maintain and each vendor will deviate
> from this custom mechanism and soon we will have bunch of them to handle.


There exist armv7-a platforms that expect OP-TEE notification support and w=
ill not move the FF-A, like the stm32mp15. This platform won't move to FF-A=
 mainly due to the memory cost of the added SPM layer and the device physic=
al constraints.
We have a usecase for OP-TEE notification. We're working on the integration=
 of an SCMI server in OP-TEE. SCMI notification is a feature needed is this=
 scope and it requires OP-TEE async notification means as those proposed he=
re.

This OP-TEE async notif also brings a lot of value in OP-TEE as it allows a=
 OP-TEE secure thread (i.e. executing a trusted application service) to gen=
tly wait on a secure interrupt (as a slow bus transaction completion or man=
y other usecase) with the CPU relaxed. This support is provided by the prop=
osed series. I believe existing device should be able to leverage this OP-T=
EE feature without needing their OP-TEE to move to the new FF-A interface.

Regards,
Etienne

>
> [...]

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