From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: flihp@twobit.us, jgg@ziepe.ca, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:00:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1533927647.3143.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f49367fa-5af0-695e-342f-03a4bdcf35f2@intel.com>
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 11:56 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 08/10/2018 11:48 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 11:21 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > > and the feedback I got from Jason was:
> > >
> > > "I wonder if it is worth creating this when the first file is
> > > opened.. Lots of systems have TPMs but few use the userspace.."
> > >
> > > so I changed this to allocate the WQ on first open. I think it
> > > makes sense, but I leave it to you to decide.
> >
> > If the reason is to not create a wq unless it's needed, shouldn't
> > the condition actually be first open with flag O_NONBLOCK?
> >
>
> Not really because one can do:
>
> int fd = open("/dev/tpm0", O_RDWR);
> fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
so move the condition to first need to queue ...
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-10 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-07 20:27 [PATCH v4 0/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-07 20:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] tpm: add ptr to the tpm_space struct to file_priv Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 17:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-10 18:05 ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 18:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-07 20:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 17:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-10 18:21 ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 18:48 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-10 18:56 ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 19:00 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2018-08-10 19:14 ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-12 10:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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