Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Runtime PM for TPM2 CRB chips

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 05:10:25PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> These patches implement support for runtime PM with TPM2 CRB chips such
> as PTT in Skylake.
> 
> This is very naive implementation since the TPM is resumed and supended
> for every transaction thus causing total 40 ms latency for each
> transaction but for the existing use cases this shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> Jarkko Sakkinen (3):
>   tpm_crb: fix crb_req_canceled behavior
>   tpm, tpm_crb: remove wmb()'s
>   tpm, tpm_crb: runtime power management
> 
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c |  3 ++
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c       | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewing myself:

* I fsckd the description. The latency is whopping 400 ms, not 4 ms.
  Sorry about that. Thus it's better to use autosuspend.
* Callbacks should take tpm_mutex before doing anything.

I guess that tpm_tis could later on also take advantage of this work?

/Jarkko