linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:57:25 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To:	Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Debora Velarde <debora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <m.selhorst@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

On Monday 10 of October 2011, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 01:05 PM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > On Monday 10 of October 2011, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
> >> On 09/10/11 23:29, Stefan Berger wrote:
> >>> On 10/09/2011 04:51 PM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> >>>> On Wednesday 05 of October 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>>>> Another week, another -rc.
> >>>> 
> >>>> suspend to ram regression is annoying (still visible on rc9;
> >>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/24/76) but unfortunately maintainers are
> >>>> silent.
> >>> 
> >>> I tried -rc9 on my Lenovo W500 with that same TPM. I cannot reproduce
> >>> the 'scheduling while atomic' problem you had reported earlier. I also
> >>> could suspend / resume fine as long as I did the following:
> >>> 
> >>> - suspended with the tpm_tis driver as module in the kernel
> >>> - once a suspend was done without the tpm_tis driver the subsequent
> >>> suspends were all done without the tpm_tis driver
> >>> 
> >>> Once I had done a suspend/resume with the tpm_tis driver *not* in the
> >>> kernel and then again a suspend with the tpm_tis driver in the kernel,
> >>> it did not resume anymore. I believe previously (previous version of
> >>> kernel and/or Fedora) it refused to even suspend. The reason why this
> >>> doesn't work properly is that the driver has to send a command to the
> >>> TPM upon suspend and the BIOS then sends the corresponding wakeup
> >>> command.
> >>> 
> >>> Did you maybe previously suspend/resume without a tpm_tis driver and
> >>> then try to suspend with it ?
> >>> 
> >>> Also, my Lenovo W500 shows particularly odd behavior when I switch
> >>> from Windows to Linux. The first suspend with a Linux booted after
> >>> Windows (with or without tpm_tis driver) does *not* resume (reboot
> >>> required). A subsequently rebooted Linux makes the suspend/resume work
> >>> fine.
> >>> 
> >>>     Stefan
> >> 
> >> Arkadiusz,
> >> 
> >> Do you still see the issue with this patch [1][2] applied?
> > 
> > The issue doesn't happen with this patch but error condition with "Could
> > not read PCR 0. TPM is not working correctly." is triggered immediately
> > at boot, even before suspend is used.
> > 
> > $ dmesg|grep -iE "(tpm|suspend)"
> > [   12.640039] tpm_tis 00:0a: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x1020, rev-id 6)
> > [   12.640048] tpm_tis 00:0a: Intel iTPM workaround enabled
> > [   12.768057] tpm_tis 00:0a: Could not read PCR 0. TPM is not working
> > correctly.
> > [   12.768066] tpm_tis 00:0a: Was machine previously suspended without
> > TPM driver present?
> > [   88.512117] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
> 
> Though I suppose that now your suspend/resume cycles always work?

Tried several times and it always worked, so probably yes. Longer testing will 
give definitive answer.

> I guess the BIOS seems not to be initializing the TPM correctly. Any
> chance you can get a hold of a BIOS update for your machine?

Then I looked into bios options on this thinkpad t400 and there are 3 possible 
TPM settings: Enabled, Invisible, Disabled.

Invisible is - visible but not working - according to bios help. No idea why 
such option exists but I had it enabled.

Right now I've set that to "Enabled" and ran few suspend/resume cycles - no 
problems so far.

I guess there is some way to make "Invisible" mode properly handled in Linux, 
too.

>     Stefan

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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