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tpm: reduce polling time to usecs for even finer granularity
The TPM burstcount and status commands are supposed to return very quickly [2][3]. This patch further reduces the TPM poll sleep time to usecs in get_burstcount() and wait_for_tpm_stat() by calling usleep_range() directly. After this change, performance on a system[1] with a TPM 1.2 with an 8 byte burstcount for 1000 extends improved from ~10.7 sec to ~7 sec. [1] All tests are performed on an x86 based, locked down, single purpose closed system. It has Infineon TPM 1.2 using LPC Bus. [2] From the TCG Specification "TCG PC Client Specific TPM Interface Specification (TIS), Family 1.2": "NOTE : It takes roughly 330 ns per byte transfer on LPC. 256 bytes would take 84 us, which is a long time to stall the CPU. Chipsets may not be designed to post this much data to LPC; therefore, the CPU itself is stalled for much of this time. Sending 1 kB would take 350 μs. Therefore, even if the TPM_STS_x.burstCount field is a high value, software SHOULD be interruptible during this period." [3] From the TCG Specification 2.0, "TCG PC Client Platform TPM Profile (PTP) Specification": "It takes roughly 330 ns per byte transfer on LPC. 256 bytes would take 84 us. Chipsets may not be designed to post this much data to LPC; therefore, the CPU itself is stalled for much of this time. Sending 1 kB would take 350 us. Therefore, even if the TPM_STS_x.burstCount field is a high value, software should be interruptible during this period. For SPI, assuming 20MHz clock and 64-byte transfers, it would take about 120 usec to move 256B of data. Sending 1kB would take about 500 usec. If the transactions are done using 4 bytes at a time, then it would take about 1 msec. to transfer 1kB of data." Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jay Freyensee <[email protected]> Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
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drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h

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@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ enum tpm_timeout {
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TPM_TIMEOUT = 5, /* msecs */
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TPM_TIMEOUT_RETRY = 100, /* msecs */
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TPM_TIMEOUT_RANGE_US = 300, /* usecs */
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TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL = 1 /* msecs */
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TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL = 1, /* msecs */
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TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN = 100, /* usecs */
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TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX = 500 /* usecs */
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};
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/* TPM addresses */

drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c

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@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ static int wait_for_tpm_stat(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 mask,
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}
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} else {
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do {
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tpm_msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL);
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usleep_range(TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN,
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TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX);
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status = chip->ops->status(chip);
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if ((status & mask) == mask)
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return 0;
@@ -273,7 +274,7 @@ static int get_burstcount(struct tpm_chip *chip)
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burstcnt = (value >> 8) & 0xFFFF;
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if (burstcnt)
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return burstcnt;
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tpm_msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL);
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usleep_range(TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN, TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX);
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} while (time_before(jiffies, stop));
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return -EBUSY;
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}

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