docs: staging/tee.rst: add a section on OP-TEE notifications

Adds a section on notifications used by OP-TEE, synchronous and
asynchronous.

Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
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@ -184,6 +184,36 @@ order to support device enumeration. In other words, OP-TEE driver invokes this
application to retrieve a list of Trusted Applications which can be registered
as devices on the TEE bus.
OP-TEE notifications
--------------------
There are two kinds of notifications that secure world can use to make
normal world aware of some event.
1. Synchronous notifications delivered with ``OPTEE_RPC_CMD_NOTIFICATION``
using the ``OPTEE_RPC_NOTIFICATION_SEND`` parameter.
2. Asynchronous notifications delivered with a combination of a non-secure
edge-triggered interrupt and a fast call from the non-secure interrupt
handler.
Synchronous notifications are limited by depending on RPC for delivery,
this is only usable when secure world is entered with a yielding call via
``OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG``. This excludes such notifications from secure
world interrupt handlers.
An asynchronous notification is delivered via a non-secure edge-triggered
interrupt to an interrupt handler registered in the OP-TEE driver. The
actual notification value are retrieved with the fast call
``OPTEE_SMC_GET_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE``. Note that one interrupt can represent
multiple notifications.
One notification value ``OPTEE_SMC_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE_DO_BOTTOM_HALF`` has a
special meaning. When this value is received it means that normal world is
supposed to make a yielding call ``OPTEE_MSG_CMD_DO_BOTTOM_HALF``. This
call is done from the thread assisting the interrupt handler. This is a
building block for OP-TEE OS in secure world to implement the top half and
bottom half style of device drivers.
AMD-TEE driver
==============