Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] tpm_tis: fix interrupts (again)

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On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 17:03 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 10/13/20 6:05 PM, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> > James Bottomley @ 2020-10-13 08:24 MST:
> > > On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 08:15 -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> > > > Jarkko Sakkinen @ 2020-10-12 18:17 MST:
[...]
> > > > >   Jerry, once you have some bandwidth (no rush, does not land
> > > > > before rc2), it would be great that if you could try this.
> > > > > I'm emphasizing this just because of the intersection. I
> > > > > think it would also make senset to get tested-by from Nayna.
> > > > 
> > > > I will run some tests on some other systems I have access to.
> > > > As noted in the other email I did a quick test with a t490s
> > > > with an older bios that exhibits the problem originally
> > > > reported when Stefan's patch enabled interrupts.
> > > 
> > > Well, it means there's still some other problem.  I was hoping
> > > that because the rainbow pass system originally exhibited the
> > > same symptoms (interrupt storm) fixing it would also fix the t490
> > > and the ineffective EOI bug looked like a great candidate for
> > > being the root cause.
> > > 
> > 
> > Adding Hans to the list.
> > 
> > IIUC in the t490s case the problem lies with the hardware itself.
> > Hans, is that correct?
> 
> More or less. AFAIK / have been told by Lenovo it is an issue with
> the configuration of the inerrupt-type of the GPIO pin used for the
> IRQ, which is a firmware issue which could be fixed by a BIOS update
> (the pin is setup as a direct-irq pin for the APIC, so the OS has no
> control of the IRQ type since with APIC irqs this is all supposed to
> be setup properly before hand).
> 
> But it is a model specific issue, if we denylist IRQ usage on this
> Lenovo model (and probably a few others) then we should be able to
> restore the IRQ code to normal functionality for all other device
> models which declare an IRQ in their resource tables.

I can do that with a quirk, but how do I identify the device?  TPM
manufacturer and version? or do I have to use something like the ACPI
bios version?

James





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