More interrupt problems with TIS TPM

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I've got hold of an infineon TIS TPM which actually has a working
interrupt.  I find even with the other fix I still need the patch below
to get the interrupt to fire because without it nothing ever sets
TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ which means the interrupt test code is never
executed.

Finally with all this probing fixed, I'm seeing interrupt storms.  The
way this TPM seems to work is that if you allow it to send command
ready interrupts, it will send them any time it can accept a command. 
The problem is if you clear the interrupt and it can accept a command,
it will send another command ready interrupt ... hence the storm since
the TPM is pretty much always in the command ready state.  The only way
to mitigate this seems to be *only* to enable the command ready
interrupt when you're preparing to wait for the TPM to become ready. 
i.e. these interrupts have to be treated as one shot enable, so the
interrupt routine has to mask the command ready interrupt before doing
a TPM_EOI in our way of doing things.  There seems to be support for
this in the TIS spec around line 1135 where it advises us to keep all
interrupts masked until polling says we have to wait for a particular
state.

James

---

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
index 6b884badabe7..1578d158416c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
@@ -804,6 +810,7 @@ static int tpm_tis_probe_irq_single(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 intmask,
 		return rc;
 
 	priv->irq_tested = false;
+	chip->flags |= TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ;
 
 	/* Generate an interrupt by having the core call through to
 	 * tpm_tis_send





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