Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/sev: add a SVSM vTPM platform device

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:55:41AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-12-10 at 10:40 -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 03:34:23PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > 
> > > +               if (platform_device_add_data(&tpm_device, &pops,
> > > sizeof(pops)))
> > > +                       return -ENODEV;
> > > +               if (platform_device_register(&tpm_device))
> > > +                       return -ENODEV;
> > 
> > This seems like an old fashioned way to instantiate a device. Why do
> > this? Just put the TPM driver here and forget about pops? Simple tpm
> > drivers are not very complex.
> 
> This driver may be for the AMD SEV SVSM vTPM module, but there are
> other platforms where there's an internal vTPM which might be contacted
> via a platform specific enlightenment (Intel SNP and Microsoft
> OpenHCL). 

Sure, that's what TPM drivers are for, give those platforms TPM drivers
too.

Why put a mini driver hidden under an already mini driver?

> This separation of the platform device from the contact
> mechanism is designed to eliminate the duplication of having a platform
> device within each implementation and to make any bugs in the mssim
> protocol centrally fixable (every vTPM currently speaks this).

That makes sense, but that isn't really what I see in this series?

Patch one just has tpm_class_ops send() invoke pops sendrcv() after
re-arranging the arguments?

It looks to me like there would be mert in adding a new op to
tpm_class_ops for the send/recv type operating mode and have the core
code manage the buffer singleton (is a global static even *correct*??)

After that, there is no meaningful shared code here, and maybe the
TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ hack can be avoided too.

Simply call tpm_chip_alloc/register from the sev code directly and
provide an op that does the send/recv. Let the tpm core code deal with
everything else. It is much cleaner than platform devices and driver
data..

Jason