From: Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@xxxxxx> ioread8() operations to TPM MMIO addresses can stall the CPU when immediately following a sequence of iowrite*()'s to the same region. For example, cyclitest measures ~400us latency spikes when a non-RT usermode application communicates with an SPI-based TPM chip (Intel Atom E3940 system, PREEMPT_RT kernel). The spikes are caused by a stalling ioread8() operation following a sequence of 30+ iowrite8()s to the same address. I believe this happens because the write sequence is buffered (in CPU or somewhere along the bus), and gets flushed on the first LOAD instruction (ioread*()) that follows. The enclosed change appears to fix this issue: read the TPM chip's access register (status code) after every iowrite*() operation to amortize the cost of flushing data to chip across multiple instructions. Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I don't know how performance critical this is so that it should be restricted to PREEMPT_RT. This has been in RT queue since late 2017 and I have no idea how to deal with this differently/ in a more generic way. Original thread: https://lore.kernel.org/20170804215651.29247-1-haris.okanovic@xxxxxx drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c index ed5dabd3c72d6..513e0d1c349a6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c @@ -50,6 +50,31 @@ static inline struct tpm_tis_tcg_phy *to_tpm_tis_tcg_phy(struct tpm_tis_data *da return container_of(data, struct tpm_tis_tcg_phy, priv); } +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT +/* + * Flushes previous write operations to chip so that a subsequent + * ioread*()s won't stall a CPU. + */ +static inline void tpm_tis_flush(void __iomem *iobase) +{ + ioread8(iobase + TPM_ACCESS(0)); +} +#else +#define tpm_tis_flush(iobase) do { } while (0) +#endif + +static inline void tpm_tis_iowrite8(u8 b, void __iomem *iobase, u32 addr) +{ + iowrite8(b, iobase + addr); + tpm_tis_flush(iobase); +} + +static inline void tpm_tis_iowrite32(u32 b, void __iomem *iobase, u32 addr) +{ + iowrite32(b, iobase + addr); + tpm_tis_flush(iobase); +} + static int interrupts = -1; module_param(interrupts, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(interrupts, "Enable interrupts"); @@ -186,12 +211,12 @@ static int tpm_tcg_write_bytes(struct tpm_tis_data *data, u32 addr, u16 len, switch (io_mode) { case TPM_TIS_PHYS_8: while (len--) - iowrite8(*value++, phy->iobase + addr); + tpm_tis_iowrite8(*value++, phy->iobase, addr); break; case TPM_TIS_PHYS_16: return -EINVAL; case TPM_TIS_PHYS_32: - iowrite32(le32_to_cpu(*((__le32 *)value)), phy->iobase + addr); + tpm_tis_iowrite32(le32_to_cpu(*((__le32 *)value)), phy->iobase, addr); break; } -- 2.40.0
