IMX8M OP-TEE

Igor Opaniuk igor.opaniuk at foundries.io
Wed Oct 20 18:46:52 CEST 2021


Hi Tim,

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:03 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:15 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Is anyone successfully booting U-Boot with OP-TEE support on the IMX8M?
> >
> > My understanding is that you need to add tee.bin to the images in the
> > FIT image and include it in loadables following the ATF.
> >
> > While this was done with arch/arm/mach-imx/mkimage_fit_atf.sh before
> > the switch to binman by simply having tee.bin in the U-Boot directory
> > and passing in TEE_LOAD_ADDR (or accepting the default of 0xfe000000)
> > once you switch to binman it needs to be added for your board.
> >
> > Additionally in order to use OP-TEE from U-Boot (ie for dek_blob
> > command) you need to add a node with compatible=linaro,optee-tz as
> > well.
> >
> > I've done the following to add OP-TEE for imx8mm_venice:
> > diff --git a/configs/imx8mm_venice_defconfig b/configs/imx8mm_venice_defconfig
> > index d85827b588..85d2b20810 100644
> > -u-boot.dtsi
> > index e0fa9ff4bf..7a71b974e1 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-venice-u-boot.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-venice-u-boot.dtsi
> > @@ -10,6 +10,13 @@
> >                 multiple-images;
> >         };
> >
> > +       firmware {
> > +               optee {
> > +                       compatible = "linaro,optee-tz";
> > +                       method = "smc";
> > +               };
> > +       };
> > +
> >         wdt-reboot {
> >                 compatible = "wdt-reboot";
> >                 wdt = <&wdog1>;
> > @@ -152,6 +159,16 @@
> >                                         };
> >                                 };
> >
> > +                               tee {
> > +                                       description = "TEE firmware";
> > +                                       type = "firmware";
> > +                                       arch = "arm64";
> > +                                       compression = "none";
> > +                                       data = "tee.bin";
> > +                                       load = <0xbe000000>;
> > +                                       entry = <0xbe000000>;
> > +                               };
> > +
> >                                 @fdt-SEQ {
> >                                         description = "NAME";
> >                                         type = "flat_dt";
> > @@ -165,7 +182,7 @@
> >                                 @config-SEQ {
> >                                         description = "NAME";
> >                                         firmware = "uboot";
> > -                                       loadables = "atf";
> > +                                       loadables = "atf", "tee";
> >                                         fdt = "fdt-SEQ";
> >                                 };
> >                         };
> >
> >
> > However, when I attempt to boot I hang when the ATF is run.
> >
> > Where does the TEE_LOAD_ADDR come from specifically? I would think
> > this needs to be defined when building tee and needs to match the load
> > address used in the FIT image. It appears that perhaps this is supped
> > to be DDR_BASE + DDR_SIZE - 32MIB but I'm not entirely sure.
> >
> > I'm currently using NXP's ATF (imx_5.4.3_2.0.0) and NXP's TEE
> > (imx_5.4.70_2.3.0) and would also like to understand if NXP's branches
> > are strictly required here and if so what the pros and cons of using
> > them are.
> >
> > Anyone using IMX8MM OP-TEE that could point me in the right direction?
> >
>
> Here's what I've learned so far via various responses, research and testing.
>
> There are multiple boot flows that can be used with OP-TEE:
> 1. SPL -> ATF -> OP-TEE -> U-boot -> LInux
This is the case for ARMv8: TF-A provides runtime service here as
Secure Monitor (running on EL3), arbitrating context switches between
Secure/Non-secure worlds. OP-TEE OS core is running on Secure EL1.

> 2. SPL -> OP-TEE -> U-boot -> Linux
This is the case for ARMv7, where there is only one Secure PL1,
so OP-TEE also fulfills the function of SM (arbitrating context
switches between NW/SW).

>
> I'm not really clear what the pros and cons of each are - can anyone
> shed some light on this?
>
> Method #1 is what I've found the most info on and have mostly gotten
> working so I will go over that here. As IMX8MM runs on Cortex-A Arm
> TrustZone is available and thus TF-A can be used.
>
> By the way, I'm a bit confused as to ATF vs TF-A. From what I can find:
> - ATF (Arm Trusted Firmware) is a Trusted Firmware reference
> implementation of secure world software for Armv7-A, Armv8-A, and
> Armv8-M architectures.
> - TF-A (Trusted Firmware-A) also appears to provide the same thing
> Are these the same? Which one is it that NXP uses for imx-atf [1]
It's the same product, which I guess was renamed to avoid confusion,
as ARM introduced Trusted Firmware M for M-cores.


>
> When OP-TEE is used with TF-A the TF-A gets invoked with the TEE as
> bl32 and main u-boot as bl33. Once it has done its startup TF-A jumps
> into the bl32(OP-TEE) for the TEE startup, returns to TF-A and then
> jumps to bl33(U-Boot).
>
> For this boot flow on IMX8MM you need to do the following:
> - build TF-A (bl31.bin) with OP-TEE as a Secure Payload Dispatcher
> (SPD) (add 'SPD=opteed' to env)
> - build OP-TEE (tee.bin)
> - add tee.bin to U-Boot FIT image along with TF-A binary in images node
>  * for boards still using arch/arm/mach-imx/mkimage_fit_atf.sh FIT
> generation this is done automatically when tee.bin is U-Boot's build
> directory but you also need to set TEE_LOAD_ADDR env to specify the
> load addr of the TEE which depends on the board DRAM size
>  * for boards using binman the generation of the FIT image has moved
> to using the 'binman' tool thus adding tee.bin requires you to modify
> your board's u-boot.dtsi itb node to add tee.bin to itb/fit/images/
> and add a reference to it in the loadables property of your boot
> configuration following atf. This is shown in my patch above except
> there I neglected to add the required 'tee_blob: blob-ext { filename =
> "tee.bin"; }. Here you must set the TEE_LOAD_ADDR as the load address
> manually.
> - To enable OP-TEE support in U-Boot a /firmware/optee node needs to
> be added to your board u-boot.dtsi with 'compatible =
> "linaro,optee-tz"' and 'method = "smc"' nodes
>  * This node is used by the U-Boot dek_blob command
Well, to be more precise it's just for probing optee (drivers/tee/optee)
driver. It can be also used in AVB 2.0 implementation (in this case OP-TEE
is used for RPMB eMMC access for storing
rollback indexes or other persistent values to RPMB)

>  * If present then U-Boot will also copy it to your Linux dtb via
> image_setup_libfdt->optee_copy_fdt_nodes
> - To enable dek_blob in U-Boot enable CONFIG_CMD_DEKBLOB=y which will
> enable CONFIG_IMX_OPTEE_DEK_ENCAP=y
> - To enable optee driver in Linux enable CONFIG_TEE and CONFIG_OPTEE
> and optionally CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_OPTEE
> - Also, I believe you need to add memory reservations in the dt via a
> /reserved-memory/optee_core and /reserved-memory/optee_shm which will
> also be copied to the linux dtb as well if present and also depend on
> the OP-TEE memory location/configuration
>
> If you are using NXP's imx-optee-os [2] for IMX8MM then you can use
> the 'mx8mmevk' platform which simply configures the following which
> can be overridden via env:
> CFG_UART_BASE ?= UART2_BASE
> CFG_DDR_SIZE ?= 0x80000000
>
> In core/arch/arm/plat-imx/conf.mk for imx8mm CFG_DDR_SIZE is used to
> compute CFG_TZDRAM_START where optee gets loaded (TEE_LOAD_ADDR):
> # put optee end of ddr for AARCH64
> CFG_TZDRAM_START ?= ($(CFG_DRAM_BASE) - 0x02000000 + $(CFG_DDR_SIZE))
> CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE ?= 0x01c00000
> CFG_SHMEM_START ?= ($(CFG_TZDRAM_START) + $(CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE))
> CFG_SHMEM_SIZE ?= 0x00400000
>
> thus:
> CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x40000000 (1GiB) results in
> CFG_TZDRAM_START=0x7e000000 (TEE_LOAD_ADDR) and
> CFG_SHMEM_START=0x7fc00000
> CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x80000000 (2GiB) results in
> CFG_TZDRAM_START=0xbe000000 (TEE_LOAD_ADDR) and
> CFG_SHMEM_START=0xbfc00000
> CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x100000000 (4GiB) results in
> CFG_TZDRAM_START=0x13e000000 (TEE_LOAD_ADDR) and
> CFG_SHMEM_START=0x13fc00000
>
> So for a 2GiB board your dt changes for a board already using binman
> should look like this:
> @@ -6,6 +6,29 @@
>  #include "imx8mm-u-boot.dtsi"
>
>  / {
> +       firmware {
> +               optee {
> +                       compatible = "linaro,optee-tz";
> +                       method = "smc";
> +               };
> +       };
> +
> +       reserved-memory {
> +               #address-cells = <2>;
> +               #size-cells = <2>;
> +               ranges;
> +
> +               /* 32MiB */
> +               optee_core at be000000 {
> +                       reg = <0x00 0xbe000000 0x00 0x2000000>;
> +               };
> +
> +               /* 4K */
> +               optee_shm at bfc00000 {
> +                       reg = <0x00 0xbfc00000 0x00 0x400000>;
> +               };
> +       };
> +
>         binman: binman {
>                 multiple-images;
>         };
> @@ -152,6 +175,19 @@
>                                         };
>                                 };
>
> +                               tee {
> +                                       description = "TEE firmware";
> +                                       type = "firmware";
> +                                       arch = "arm64";
> +                                       compression = "none";
> +                                       load = <0xbe000000>;
> +                                       entry = <0xbe000000>;
> +
> +                                       tee_blob: blob-ext {
> +                                               filename = "tee.bin";
> +                                       };
> +                               };
> +
>                                 @fdt-SEQ {
>                                         description = "NAME";
>                                         type = "flat_dt";
> @@ -165,7 +201,7 @@
>                                 @config-SEQ {
>                                         description = "NAME";
>                                         firmware = "uboot";
> -                                       loadables = "atf";
> +                                       loadables = "atf", "tee";
>                                         fdt = "fdt-SEQ";
>                                 };
>                         };
>
> I have done all of the above using imx-atf [1] and imx-optee-os [2] on
> a 2GiB IMX8MM board and successfully boot to U-Boot where I verify
> dek_blob works, and then successfully booting to Linux where I verify
> that the Linux optee driver probes.
>
> But, what confuses me relates to optee memory usage and location
> (TEE_LOAD_ADDR) based on testing on 1GiB and 4GiB IMX8MM boards:
> - CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x40000000 (1GiB); TEE_LOAD_ADDR=0x7e000000
>   - panic's at core/arch/arm/mm/core_mmu.c <check_pa_matches_va> on a
> 1GiB DRAM board (why? makes no sense)
>   - panic's at core/arch/arm/mm/core_mmu.c <check_pa_matches_va> on a
> 2GiB DRAM board (this makes sense as 0x7e000000 should be out of
> bounds!)
>   - hangs in opteed_init on a 4GiB DRAM board (why?)
> - CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x80000000 (2GiB); TEE_LOAD_ADDR=0xbe000000
>   - boots on a 1GiB DRAM board... shouldn't that crash when accessing
> 0xbe000000?
>   - boots on a 2GiB DRAM board
>   - boots on a 4GiB DRAM board
> CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x100000000 (4GiB); TEE_LOAD_ADDR=0x13e000000
>   - fails building: 'Error: u-boot.its:63.13-24 Value out of range for
> 32-bit array element'
>   - also this may be an issue as currently IMX8MM boards have DRAM
> limited to 3GiB due to various IP drivers not being 64bit ready
>
> Also, I find that the memory reservations produce an error when I TFTP
> a file due to (tftp_init_load_addr -> lmb_init_and_reserve)
> u-boot=> tftpboot $fdt_addr_r venice/imx8mm-venice-gw73xx-0x.dtb
> Using ethernet at 30be0000 device
> TFTP from server 192.168.1.146; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
> Filename 'venice/imx8mm-venice-gw73xx-0x.dtb'.
> ERROR: reserving fdt memory region failed (addr=bfc00000 size=400000 flags=0)
>
> Can anyone explain the memory configurations needed for IMX8MM OP-TEE?

Well, I'd suggest just to take existing buildroot based setup with
vanilla OP-TEE for
Verdin iMX8MM ([1], [2], [3]), which I created ~2 years ago and just take a look
what build flags are used there. I'm not sure if it's still works, as
I don't have
Verdin SoM  at hand, however this definitely will save you a lot of
time trying to build/bring
up everything manually.

Also there is a makefile for iMX8MQ EVK [4], which is currently maintained by
Jens Wiklander from Linaro (never tried to use it, but looks like it's
regularly updated, so
it should just work out of the box).

[1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/manifest/blob/master/verdin.xml
[2] https://github.com/OP-TEE/build/blob/master/verdin.mk
[3] https://optee.readthedocs.io/en/latest/building/index.html
[4] https://github.com/OP-TEE/build/blob/master/imx.mk
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim
> [1] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-atf/
> [2] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-optee-os/

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Igor

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