Re: [PATCH] efi: expose TPM event log to userspace via sysfs

[Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>]

On Do, 25.04.24 09:24, James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com) wrote:

> On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 11:58 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> [...]
> > General purpose distros typically don't build all TPM drivers into
> > the kernel, but ship some in the initrd instead. Then, udev is
> > responsible for iterating all buses/devices and auto-loading the
> > necessary drivers. Each loaded bus driver might make more devices
> > available for which more drivers then need to be loaded, and so on.
> > Some of the busses are "slow" in the sense that we don't really know
> > a precise time when we know that all devices have now shown up, there
> > might always be slow devices that haven't popped up yet. Iterating
> > through the entire tree of devices in sysfs is often quite slow in
> > itself too, it's one of the most time consuming parts of the boot in
> > fact. This all is done asynchronously hence: we
> > enumerate/trigger/kmod all devices as quickly as we can, but we
> > continue doing other stuff at the same time.
>
> So let me make a suggestion that you can use now.  Since all you
> currently care about is the EFI/ACPI device, there is always a single
> sysfs entry that corresponds to that (so you shouldn't need the log
> entry as an indicator):
>
> /sys/bus/acpi/devices/MSFT0101\:00
>
> That link (or a kobject uevent if you prefer to look for that) will
> always appear regardless of whether a driver has attached or not.  When
> the driver actually attaches, a driver/ directory will appear where the
> link points.
>
> The device link is added when the acpi scan is initiated as a
> subsys_initcall, which is before all the filesystem initcalls, so it
> should run before the initrd is mounted.
>
> Is this enough for now and we can think about a more generic indicator
> that all drivers have been probed later?

That would only work on ACPI though, but on ACPI we already have a
check that works?

Or to say this differently: how is that different/better from the
check that already exists in systemd, which looks for
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/TPM2?

Lennart

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