Re: [PATCH 0/3] STM32 Extended TrustZone Protection driver

[Mark Rutland]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 03:09:23PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> On early boot stages STM32MP1 platform is able to dedicate some hardware blocks
> to a secure OS running in TrustZone.
> We need to avoid using those hardware blocks on non-secure context (i.e. kernel)
> because read/write access will all be discarded.
> 
> Extended TrustZone Protection driver register itself as listener of
> BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER and check, given the device address, if the hardware block
> could be used in a Linux context. If not it returns NOTIFY_BAD to driver core
> to stop driver probing.

Huh?

If these devices are not usable from the non-secure side, why are they
not removed form the DT (or marked disabled)?

In other cases, where resources are carved out for the secure side (e.g.
DRAM carveouts), that's how we handle things.

Mark.

> 
> NOTE: patches 2 and 3 should be applied only on
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/atorgue/stm32.git stm32-next
> but until this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/26/386
> find it way to mailine KBuild will complain about them.
> 
> Benjamin Gaignard (3):
>   driver core: check notifier_call_chain return value
>   dt-bindings: stm32: Add bindings for Extended TrustZone Protection
>   ARM: mach-stm32: Add Extended TrustZone Protection driver
> 
>  .../bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32mp1-etzpc.txt       |  13 ++
>  arch/arm/mach-stm32/Kconfig                        |   7 +
>  arch/arm/mach-stm32/Makefile                       |   1 +
>  arch/arm/mach-stm32/stm32-etzpc.c                  | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/base/dd.c                                  |   9 +-
>  5 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32mp1-etzpc.txt
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-stm32/stm32-etzpc.c
> 
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