linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v8] tpm_tis: verify interrupt during init

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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:44:51 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
cc:	Michael Mullin <masmullin@...il.com>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
	Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@...gle.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v8] tpm_tis: verify interrupt during init

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:50:00AM +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
>> +	if (!priv->irq_tested) {
>
> I think the sleep and check is still needed here, the IRQ delivery
> could race relative to the MMIO read of completion, a sleep is the
> only way we could attempt to synchronize them..
>
>> +		disable_interrupts(chip);
>> +		dev_err(chip->dev,
>> +			FW_BUG "TPM interrupt not working, polling instead\n");
>> +	}
>> +	priv->irq_tested = true;
>> +	return rc;
>> +}

We re-tested this v9 patch. It has the msleep(1) added just above this 
section for better formatting, as well as a devm_kzalloc check in 
tpm_tis_init. Thanks!
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