Device Driver Components

2.1.1 Driver Initialization Routine

The driver initialization routine includes both OS-specific and hardware-specific initialization. The steps taken by the driver initialization routine are as follows:

•Finds the security engine core and sets the device memory map starting address in IOBaseAddress.

•Initialize the security engine's registers

—Controller registers

—Channel registers

—EU registers

•Initializes driver internal variables

•Initializes the channel assignment table

—The device driver will maintain this structure with state information for each channel and user request. A mutual-exclusion semaphore protects this structure so multiple tasks are prevented from interfering with each other.

•Initializes the internal request queue

—This queue holds requests to be dispatched when channels become available. The queue can hold up to 24 requests. The driver will reject requests with an error when the queue is full.

•ProcessingComplete() is spawned then pends on the IsrMsgQId which serves as the interface between the interrupt service routine and this deferred task.

2.1.2 Request Dispatch Routine

The request dispatch routine provides the ioctl() interface to the device driver. It uses the callers request code to identify which function is to execute and dispatches the appropriate handler to process the request. The driver performs a number of tasks that include tracking requests, queuing requests when the requested channel is unavailable, preparing data packet descriptors, and writing said descriptor's address to the appropriate channel; in effect giving the security engine the direction to begin processing the request. The ioctl() function returns to the end-user application without waiting for the security engine to complete, assuming that once a DPD (data packet descriptor) is initiated for processing by the hardware, interrupt service may invoke a handler to provide completion notification

2.1.3 Process Request Routine

The process request routine translates the request into a sequence of one or more data packet descriptors (DPD) and feeds it to the security engine core to initiate processing. If no channels are available to handle the request, the request is queued.

2.1.4 Interrupt Service Routine

When processing is completed by the security engine, an interrupt is generated. The interrupt service routine handles the interrupt and queues the result of the operation in the IsrMsgQId queue for deferred processing by the ProcessingComplete() deferred service routine.

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