Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tpm: Apply an adapterlimit for retransmission.

From: Enric Balletbo Serra
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 13:49:52 EST


Bounce to Wolfram Sang

2017-02-22 15:01 GMT+01:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:16:08PM +0100, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Removing Bryan Freed from the loop as seems his email is not valid anymore. I already CC'ied Andrey which is doing the TPM bit in chromeos kernel.
>>
>> On 21/02/17 17:29, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:44:59PM +0100, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
>> >> From: Bryan Freed <bfreed@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> When the I2C Infineon part is attached to an I2C adapter that imposes
>> >> a size limitation, large requests will fail -EINVAL.
>> >> Retry them with size backoff without re-issuing the 0x05 command
>> >> as this appears to occasionally put the TPM in a bad state.
>> >
>> > Hi Enric
>> >
>> > Rather than trying small and smaller transfers, would it not be better
>> > to get the i2c core to expose the quirk info about transfer limits?
>> >
>>
>> Sounds a good idea to me, I guess the quirk info can be accessed with
>>
>> tpm_dev.client->adapter->quirks->max_read_len
>>
>> so I think we don't need to touch the i2c core. I'll propose a second version of the patch.
>
> Hi Enric
>
> You should probably ask Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the i2c
> subsystem maintainer. He may prefer adding an API call.
>
> Andrew