Re: [PATCH v2] tpm_tis: Use timeouts returned from TPM

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 02/26/2011 06:45 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 08:41 PM, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> Below patch applies to the tip of the git tree.
>>
>> v2:
>>    - adjusting all timeouts for TPM devices reporting too low timeout
>> numbers
>>    - also displaying in sysfs whether the timeouts are 'original' or
>> 'adjusted'
>>
>> The current TPM TIS driver in git discards the timeout values returned
>> from the TPM. The check of the response packet needs to consider that
>> the return_code field is 0 on success and the size of the expected
>> packet is equivalent to the header size + u32 length indicator for the
>> TPM_GetCapability() result + 3 timeout indicators of type u32.
>>
>> Since some TPMs seem to return timeouts in msec rather than usec,
>> I am now adjusting all the timeouts rather than just the one for short
>> durations.
>>
>> I am also adding a sysfs entry 'timeouts' showing the timeouts that are
>> being used.
> It works:
'It' means also 'suspend' works?


> # dmesg
> [15318.813905] tpm_tis 00:0c: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0xB, rev-id 16)
> [15318.879154] tpm_tis 00:0c: Adjusting TPM timeout parameters.
> # cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00\:0*/timeouts
> 1000000 2000000 150000000 [adjusted]
>
Looks more reasonable.

    Stefan

> thanks,