Re: [tpmdd-devel] Regression between Linux 3.16 and 4.8/4.9 on Lenovo X60 with coreboot

Jason Gunthorpe
2017-04-06T16:56:21Z

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

> Indeed, that improves the situation. I still need to pass `force=1` to the
> module to get `/dev/tpm0`. No idea, why it’s not in included in Linux 4.9
> yet.

Fair point.. Jarkko - could you forward that patch to -stable?

> $ journalctl -k -o cat | grep tpm
> tpm_tis tpm_tis: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x3202, rev-id 5)
> tpm tpm0: Issuing TPM_STARTUP
> tpm tpm0: [Hardware Error]: Adjusting reported timeouts: A 10000->10000us B
> 10000->10000us C 0->752000us D 0->752000us

There could be more relavent kernel messages than this, try
grep -i tpm

?

> So do you have an idea, what “ACPI requirements” changed in the `tpm` module
> since Linux 3.16 to be loaded automatically?

We added direct ACPI binding to the driver in addition to PNP, so if
you have an ACPI table it goes down that path and does some additional
validation of what is in the TPM. The BIOS must provide a
acpi_dev_resource_memory and a ACPI_SIG_TPM2 for the ACPI entry at a
minimum.

There are FW_BUG prints if those fail, so check your dmesg closely?

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c#L250

If not, can you annotate in some printk's into tpm_tis_acpi_init and
recompile/re-test?

Jason