Re: [tpmdd-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add tpm_xenu.ko: Xen VirtualTPM frontend driver

From: Kent Yoder
Date: Thu Nov 08 2012 - 17:06:04 EST


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Fioravante, Matthew E.
<Matthew.Fioravante@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> On 07.11.12 at 19:14, Matthew Fioravante <matthew.fioravante@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 11/07/2012 09:46 AM, Kent Yoder wrote:
>> >>> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
>> >>> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
>> >>> @@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ struct tpm_chip {
>> >>>
>> >>> struct list_head list;
>> >>> void (*release) (struct device *);
>> >>> +#if CONFIG_XEN
>> >>> + void *priv;
>> >>> +#endif
>> >> Can you use the chip->vendor.data pointer here instead?
>> >> tpm_ibmvtpm is already using that as a priv pointer. I should
>> >> probably change that name to make it more obvious what that's used for.
>> > That makes more sense. I'm guessing your data pointer didn't exist
>> > during the 2.6.18 kernel which is why they added their own priv pointer.
>>
>> It got introduced with 3.7-rc.
>>
>> >>> @@ -310,6 +313,18 @@ struct tpm_cmd_t {
>> >>>
>> >>> ssize_t tpm_getcap(struct device *, __be32, cap_t *, const char *);
>> >>>
>> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
>> >>> +static inline void *chip_get_private(const struct tpm_chip *chip)
>> >>> +{
>> >>> + return chip->priv;
>> >>> +}
>> >>> +
>> >>> +static inline void chip_set_private(struct tpm_chip *chip, void
>> >>> +*priv) {
>> >>> + chip->priv = priv;
>> >>> +}
>> >>> +#endif
>> >> Can you put these in tpm_vtpm.c please? One less #define. :-)
>> > Agreed, I'd rather not have to modify your shared tpm.h interface at all.
>>
>> Either such accessors should be defined here, for everyone to use (and
>> tpm_ibmvtpm.c get changed accordingly), or the Xen code should access
>> the field without wrappers too (for consistency).
>
> Agreed. I'll update tpm_ibmvtpm.
>
> Kent
>
> So what is the consensus, you're going to use accessors in ibmvtpm? I was just about to remove them from my side.

Yeah I'll use your accessor. Just modify it to use
chip->vendor.data and I'll add suport to tpm_ibmvtpm after I integrate
your patch.

Thanks!
Kent

>>
>> Jan
>>
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