Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".

[Josh Zimmerman]

Are there any more changes any of you would like to see in this patch?

Thanks!
Josh


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 20:46
>> To: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-
>> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>; Jarkko
>> Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; tpmdd-
>> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".
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>> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:39:08AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
>> > (Continuing thread from patch v1)
>> > > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:43:11PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
>> > > > > > The TPM class has some common shutdown code that must be
>> > > > > > executed for all drivers. This adds some needed functionality
>> > > > > > for that
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>> > > > > The issue with this is, that on some platforms the only storage
>> > > > > can be eMMC and TPM is using it,. It has to be ensured that the
>> > > > > storage device won't go down before TPM2_shutdown is called.
>> > > > > And there is no direct device hierarchy to ensure an orderly
>> shutdown.
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>> > > > Something will have to use the new device links stuff to define
>> > > > that dependency, but that seems unrelated to this patch?
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>> > > Yep, it's not directly related to this specific patch, this is more relevant
>> particularly to TPM2_shutdown.
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>> > Jason, do you want me to do that in my patch on the tpmdd-devel list?
>> > If so, mind giving me a documentation pointer or two? I'm not familiar
>> > with this area.
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>> No.. Ordering power management events is something someone with
>> knowledge of the specific emmc platform is going to have to tackle..
>> It isn't really a core problem, platform specific code will have to setup the
>> needed device links to order power management properly..
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> eMMC is just an example, that can be other storage device (ufs, nvme) and some type of abstraction of underlying storage
> dependency would be required. I just wanted to put it on the table, not sure it has to be solved in this round.
> Tomas
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>> Jason