8. NXP DPAA CAAM (DPAA_SEC)
The DPAA_SEC PMD provides poll mode crypto driver support for NXP DPAA CAAM hardware accelerator.
8.1. Architecture
SEC is the SOC’s security engine, which serves as NXP’s latest cryptographic acceleration and offloading hardware. It combines functions previously implemented in separate modules to create a modular and scalable acceleration and assurance engine. It also implements block encryption algorithms, stream cipher algorithms, hashing algorithms, public key algorithms, run-time integrity checking, and a hardware random number generator. SEC performs higher-level cryptographic operations than previous NXP cryptographic accelerators. This provides significant improvement to system level performance.
DPAA_SEC is one of the hardware resource in DPAA Architecture. More information on DPAA Architecture is described in DPAA Overview.
DPAA_SEC PMD is one of DPAA drivers which interacts with QBMAN to create, configure and destroy the device instance using queue pair with CAAM portal.
DPAA_SEC PMD also uses some of the other hardware resources like buffer pools, queues, queue portals to store and to enqueue/dequeue data to the hardware SEC.
8.2. Implementation
SEC provides platform assurance by working with SecMon, which is a companion logic block that tracks the security state of the SOC. SEC is programmed by means of descriptors (not to be confused with frame descriptors (FDs)) that indicate the operations to be performed and link to the message and associated data. SEC incorporates two DMA engines to fetch the descriptors, read the message data, and write the results of the operations. The DMA engine provides a scatter/gather capability so that SEC can read and write data scattered in memory. SEC may be configured by means of software for dynamic changes in byte ordering. The default configuration for this version of SEC is little-endian mode.
8.3. Features
The DPAA PMD has support for:
Cipher algorithms:
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_3DES_CBC
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CBC
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CBC
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CBC
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CTR
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CTR
RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CTR
Hash algorithms:
RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA1_HMAC
RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA224_HMAC
RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA256_HMAC
RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA384_HMAC
RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA512_HMAC
RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_MD5_HMAC
AEAD algorithms:
RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GCM
8.4. Supported DPAA SoCs
- LS1046A/LS1026A
- LS1043A/LS1023A
8.5. Whitelisting & Blacklisting
For blacklisting a DPAA device, following commands can be used.
<dpdk app> <EAL args> -b "dpaa_bus:dpaa-secX" -- ... e.g. "dpaa_bus:dpaa-sec0" or to disable all 4 SEC devices -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec0" -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec1" -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec2" -b "dpaa_sec:dpaa-sec3"
8.6. Limitations
- Hash followed by Cipher mode is not supported
- Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
8.7. Prerequisites
DPAA_SEC driver has similar pre-requisites as described in DPAA Overview.
See NXP QorIQ DPAA Board Support Package for setup information
- Follow the DPDK Getting Started Guide for Linux to setup the basic DPDK environment.
8.8. Pre-Installation Configuration
8.8.1. Config File Options
Basic DPAA config file options are described in DPAA Overview.
In addition to those, the following options can be modified in the config
file
to enable DPAA_SEC PMD.
Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_DPAA_SEC
(defaultn
) By default it is only enabled in defconfig_arm64-dpaa-* config. Toggle compilation of thelibrte_pmd_dpaa_sec
driver.
8.9. Installations
To compile the DPAA_SEC PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
following make
command:
cd <DPDK-source-directory>
make config T=arm64-dpaa-linux-gcc install
8.10. Enabling logs
For enabling logs, use the following EAL parameter:
./your_crypto_application <EAL args> --log-level=pmd.crypto.dpaa:<level>
Using pmd.crypto.dpaa
as log matching criteria, all Crypto PMD logs can be
enabled which are lower than logging level
.