Re: [PATCH] tpm: separate cmd_ready/go_idle from runtime_pm

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On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:48:17PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:27:46AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:46:00PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > > > New wrappers are added tpm_cmd_ready() and tpm_go_idle()
> > wrappers
> > > > > to streamline tpm_try_transmit code. TPM_TRANSMIT_UNLOCKED flag
> > is
> > > > abused
> > > > > to resolve tpm spaces recursive calls to tpm_transmit().
> > > >
> > > > This looks good and all but I don't think we want to abuse anything
> > > > in the driver code, do we?
> > >
> > > It's not abuse just the flag UNLOCKED is not really named correctly I
> > > think this has to be backported so wanted to do less invasive change.
> > 
> > It should be renamed anyway and possible merge conflicts are not hard to
> > sort out in this change. Can you rename it as SPACE?
> 
> Not sure, I believe UNLOCKED is still better name than SPACE, I'm not sure this is 
> Do you also want to remove TPM_TRANSMIT_RAW? 
> clk_enable is handling its own anti recursion counter 'data->clkrun_enabled' 
> but it should be all handled under one flag I guess.
> 
> > Right, and even without rename this will probably cause merge conflicts at
> > least in v4.4 an v4.9 since in-kernel RM landed in v4.12, so not much gain not
> > do the rename :-)
> 
> I belive we should do minimal change and the big cleanup after that.
> Not sure, I believe UNLOCKED is still better name than SPACE even it wasn't the original intention.  
> No the SPACE is the issue, but any recursion call into tpm_transmit. A bigger change is needed
> and rename to SPACE would be just another intermediat change.
> 
> Please reconsider.
> 
> Thanks
> Tomas 

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

/Jarkko



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