Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] ARM: OMAP2+: Introduce check for OP-TEE in omap_secure_init()

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 1/2/20 12:14 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Andrew F. Davis <afd@xxxxxx> [191231 14:16]:
>> On 12/31/19 1:32 AM, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>>> This doesn't guarantee that optee driver is probed successfully or firmware
>>> installed correctly. Isn't there a better way to detect? Doesn't tee core layer
>>> exposes anything?
>>
>> We don't actually need the kernel-side OP-TEE driver at all here, we are
>> making raw SMCCC calls which get handled by OP-TEE using platform
>> specific code then emulates the function previously handled by ROM[0]
>> and execution is returned. No driver involved for these types of calls.
>>
>> U-Boot will not add this node to the DT unless OP-TEE is installed
>> correctly, but you are right that is no perfect guarantee. OP-TEE's
>> kernel driver does do a handshake to verify it is working but this is
>> not exposed outside of that driver and happens *way* too late for our
>> uses here. Plus as above, we don't need the OP-TEE driver at all and we
>> should boot the same without it even enabled.
>>
>> So my opinion is that if DT says OP-TEE is installed, but it is not,
>> then that is a misconfiguration and we usually just have to trust DT for
>> most things. If DT is wrong here then the only thing that happens is
>> this call safely fails, a message is printed informing the user of the
>> problem, and kernel keeps booting (although probably not stable given we
>> need these calls for important system configuration).
> 
> OK, please add comments to omap_optee_init_check(), it's not obvious
> to anybody not dealing with optee directly.
> 


Okay, will add this comment and the one suggested by Lokesh for v4.

Andrew


> Regards,
> 
> Tony
>