[PATCH] tpm: separate cmd_ready/go_idle from runtime_pm

Winkler, Tomas tomas.winkler at intel.com
Wed Jun 6 11:01:42 UTC 2018


> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:52:28AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:48:17PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:27:46AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:46:00PM +0300, Tomas Winkler
> wrote:
> > > > > > > > New wrappers are added tpm_cmd_ready() and tpm_go_idle()
> > > > > wrappers
> > > > > > > > to streamline tpm_try_transmit code.
> TPM_TRANSMIT_UNLOCKED
> > > > > > > > flag
> > > > > is
> > > > > > > abused
> > > > > > > > to resolve tpm spaces recursive calls to tpm_transmit().
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This looks good and all but I don't think we want to abuse
> > > > > > > anything in the driver code, do we?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's not abuse just the flag UNLOCKED is not really named
> > > > > > correctly I think this has to be backported so wanted to do
> > > > > > less invasive
> > > change.
> > > > >
> > > > > It should be renamed anyway and possible merge conflicts are not
> > > > > hard to sort out in this change. Can you rename it as SPACE?
> > > >
> > > > Not sure, I believe UNLOCKED is still better name than SPACE, I'm
> > > >not  sure this is Do you also want to remove TPM_TRANSMIT_RAW?
> > > > clk_enable is handling its own anti recursion counter 'data-
> > > >clkrun_enabled'
> > > > but it should be all handled under one flag I guess.
> > > >
> > > > > Right, and even without rename this will probably cause merge
> > > > > conflicts at least in v4.4 an v4.9 since in-kernel RM landed in
> > > > > v4.12, so not much gain not do the rename :-)
> > > >
> > > > I belive we should do minimal change and the big cleanup after that.
> > > > Not sure, I believe UNLOCKED is still better name than SPACE even
> > > > it wasn't
> > > the original intention.
> > > > No the SPACE is the issue, but any recursion call into
> > > > tpm_transmit. A bigger change is needed and rename to SPACE would
> > > > be just another
> > > intermediat change.
> > > >
> > > > Please reconsider.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Tomas
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com>
> >
> >
> > Does it mean you're Okay with the patch now?
> > Thanks
> > Tomas
> 
> The change looks good but I'll have to test it.
Any updates?
Thanks

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