On 03/25/2018 11:45 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 08:19:09AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
The timeout to wait for the register change is 30ms. We yield() while
waiting, so we don't block everything entirely... Is the error message
misleading and we should print out that a device was not detected or print
out if it is detected instead?
Unfortunately, although the TPM code calls yield(), there isn't
anything else running at that point, so the delay still directly
impacts the total boot time.  It's not easy to push back the TPM
initialization so that other "threads" are running in parallel,
because the TPM code wants to be initialized prior to running option
roms and other devices.

Could we do something like the below (completely untested)?  I don't
think we have to wait for the TPM device to report ready, because in a
real world scenario it would take an x86 cpu hundreds of milliseconds
from power on to get to this point of the code anyway.

I had thought about something like that also. Do we have the time in milliseconds since power-on or reset? We could subtract the timeout values you are discarding below from it and wait for the time difference, ignoring negative values of course. TIS_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_A is 750ms, so more critical than TIS2_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_D with 30ms.


-Kevin


--- a/src/hw/tpm_drivers.c
+++ b/src/hw/tpm_drivers.c
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ static u32 wait_reg8(u8* reg, u32 time, u8 mask, u8 expect)
              break;
          }
          if (timer_check(end)) {
-            warn_timeout();
+            if (time)
+                warn_timeout();
              break;
          }
          yield();
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ static u32 tis_probe(void)
          return 0;

      /* Wait for the interface to report it's ready */
-    u32 rc = tis_wait_access(0, TIS_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_A,
+    u32 rc = tis_wait_access(0, 0,
                               TIS_ACCESS_TPM_REG_VALID_STS,
                               TIS_ACCESS_TPM_REG_VALID_STS);
      if (rc)
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ static u32 crb_probe(void)
          return 0;

      /* Wait for the interface to report it's ready */
-    u32 rc = crb_wait_reg(0, CRB_REG_LOC_STATE, TIS2_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_D,
+    u32 rc = crb_wait_reg(0, CRB_REG_LOC_STATE, 0,
                            CRB_STATE_READY_MASK, CRB_STATE_VALID_STS);
      if (rc)
          return 0;



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