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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: "Shaikh, Azhar" <azhar.shaikh@intel.com>
Cc: "jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com"
	<jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
	"peterhuewe@gmx.de" <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	"linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] tpm: Keep CLKRUN enabled throughout the duration of transmit_cmd()
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:21:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171120192117.GJ29075@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5FFFAD06ADE1CA4381B3F0F7C6AF582896E937@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 06:52:13PM +0000, Shaikh, Azhar wrote:

> We want to have the CLKRUN disabled for any/all TPM transactions.
> The clk_toggle handles only the case while a TPM command is being
> sent and received.  We have to take into consideration other places
> too where TPM access is happening outside the TPM command flow. For
> eg: request_locality, check_locality, release_locality, wait_startup
> which might be called outside the flow of a TPM command.

Okay, this makes sense, and would be good to touch on in the commit
description if it stays this way, IMHO.

However, why not have check_locality, release_locality, wait_startup
use clk_toggle instead? That seems better to me??

> Will change it to clk_enable.  Should I then upload the next patch
> for review and remove the "RFC" tag now? And if so, should I retain
> the change history of the patch versions?

Yes for both.

I think we are well past the RFC stage now :)

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-20 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-15 22:07 [PATCH RFC v3 0/2] Fix corner cases with disabling CLKRUN in tpm_tis Azhar Shaikh
2017-11-15 22:07 ` [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] tpm: Keep CLKRUN enabled throughout the duration of transmit_cmd() Azhar Shaikh
2017-11-20 18:34   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-20 18:52     ` Shaikh, Azhar
2017-11-20 19:21       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2017-11-20 19:34         ` Shaikh, Azhar
2017-11-20 19:38           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-20 21:19             ` Shaikh, Azhar
2017-11-20 23:26               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-21 19:18                 ` Shaikh, Azhar
2017-11-21 19:27                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-20 23:19       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-11-20 23:17   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-11-15 22:07 ` [PATCH RFC v3 2/2] tpm_tis: Move ilb_base_addr to tpm_tis_tcg_phy Azhar Shaikh
2017-11-20 23:18   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-11-20 15:58 ` [PATCH RFC v3 0/2] Fix corner cases with disabling CLKRUN in tpm_tis Shaikh, Azhar

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