Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis: reserve chip for duration of tpm_tis_core_init

Jerry Snitselaar
2019-12-11T23:49:51Z

On Wed Dec 11 19, Dan Williams wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:27 PM Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed Dec 11 19, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
>> >Instead of repeatedly calling tpm_chip_start/tpm_chip_stop when
>> >issuing commands to the tpm during initialization, just reserve the
>> >chip after wait_startup, and release it when we are ready to call
>> >tpm_chip_register.
>> >
>> >Cc: Christian Bundy <christianbundy@fraction.io>
>> >Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>> >Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
>> >Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
>> >Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
>> >Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> >Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> >Cc: linux-intergrity@vger.kernel.org
>>
>> Typo on the list address, do you want me to resend Jarkko?
>>
>> >Fixes: a3fbfae82b4c ("tpm: take TPM chip power gating out of tpm_transmit()")
>> >Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
>> >---
>>
>> I did some initial testing with both a 1.2 device and a 2.0 device here.
>> Christian, can you verify that this still solves your timeouts problem
>> you were seeing? Dan, can you try this on the internal system with
>> the interrupt issues? I will see if I can get the t490s owner to run
>> it as well.
>
>Will do. I assume you'd also want to add 'Fixes: 5b359c7c4372
>("tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing IRQ's")' if it works?
>

Yes. I'm not certain this deals with the interrupt issue though, so
didn't want to stick it on there yet. I guess it should go on there
anyways since it is replacing that code. I'll post a v2.