Re: [PATCH] tpm: tis: Increase the default for timeouts B and C

["Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:00:36PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 06:45:40PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > > With some Infineon chips the timeouts in tpm_tis_send_data (both B and
> > > > C) can reach up to about 2250 ms.
> > > >
> > > > Extend the timeout duration to accommodate this.
> > > 
> > > The problem here is the bump of timeout_c is going to interact poorly with
> > > the Infineon errata workaround, as now we'll wait 4s instead of 200ms to
> > > detect the stuck status change.
> > 
> > Yes, that's problematic. Is it possible to detect the errata by anything
> > other than waiting for the timeout to expire?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of, nor have seen in my experimentation. It's a "stuck"
> status, so the timeout is how it's detected.
> 
> OOI, have you tried back porting the fixes that are in mainline for 6.15 to
> your frankenkernel? I _think_ the errata fix might end up resolving at least
> the timeout for valid for you, as a side effect? We're currently rolling
> them out across our fleet, but I don't have enough runtime yet to be sure
> they've sorted all the timeout instances we see.

When was that merged?

The change I see is that sometimes EAGAIN is returned instead of ETIME
but based on the previous discussion this is unlikely to help.

Thanks

Michal

> 
> J.
> 
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