Re: [PATCH v3] tpm: do not suspend/resume if power stays on

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 05:09:59PM +0100, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The suspend/resume behavior of the TPM can be controlled by setting
> "powered-while-suspended" in the DTS. This is useful for the cases
> when hardware does not power-off the TPM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
>  Jarkko Sakkinen
>   - Add a new TPM_CHIP_FLAG_ALWAYS_POWERED flag instead of using a boolean variable.
>   - Remove a trailing newline.
> Changes since v1:
>  Jason Gunthorpe :
>   - Move the code to handle suspend/resume in the common chip code.
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/security/tpm/tpm-i2c.txt | 6 ++++++
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c                           | 3 +++
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h                                     | 1 +
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c                                  | 3 +++
>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/security/tpm/tpm-i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/security/tpm/tpm-i2c.txt
> index 8cb638b..85c8216 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/security/tpm/tpm-i2c.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/security/tpm/tpm-i2c.txt
> @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ Required properties:
>                     the firmware event log
>  - linux,sml-size : size of the memory allocated for the firmware event log
>  
> +Optional properties:
> +
> +- powered-while-suspended: present when the TPM is left powered on between
> +                           suspend and resume (makes the suspend/resume
> +                           callbacks do nothing).
> +
>  Example (for OpenPower Systems with Nuvoton TPM 2.0 on I2C)
>  ----------------------------------------------------------

Hey, just noticed something. Shouldn't this be a separate commit?
I'm also wondering whether this can be submitted through my tree
upper maintainers.

Does not change my reviewed-by for the actual code change but you
would have to split this into a patch set if this is the case.

/Jarkko