Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 6 authors, 2017-11-28

Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] tpm: ignore burstcount to improve tpm_tis send() performance

From: Jarkko Sakkinen <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-23 02:57:31
Also in: linux-security-module, lkml

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 02:42:54PM +0000, Alexander.Steffen@infineon.com wrote:
quoted
The TPM burstcount status indicates the number of bytes that can
be sent to the TPM without causing bus wait states.  Effectively,
it is the number of empty bytes in the command FIFO.

This patch optimizes the tpm_tis_send_data() function by checking
the burstcount only once. And if the burstcount is valid, it writes
all the bytes at once, permitting wait state.

After this change, performance on a TPM 1.2 with an 8 byte
burstcount for 1000 extends improved from ~41sec to ~14sec.

Suggested-by: Ken Goldman <redacted> in
conjunction with the TPM Device Driver work group.
Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <redacted>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <redacted>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 42 +++++++++++++++----------------------
----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
index b33126a35694..993328ae988c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ static int tpm_tis_send_data(struct tpm_chip *chip,
u8 *buf, size_t len)
 {
 	struct tpm_tis_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
 	int rc, status, burstcnt;
-	size_t count = 0;
 	bool itpm = priv->flags & TPM_TIS_ITPM_WORKAROUND;

 	status = tpm_tis_status(chip);
@@ -330,35 +329,24 @@ static int tpm_tis_send_data(struct tpm_chip *chip,
u8 *buf, size_t len)
 		}
 	}

-	while (count < len - 1) {
-		burstcnt = get_burstcount(chip);
-		if (burstcnt < 0) {
-			dev_err(&chip->dev, "Unable to read burstcount\n");
-			rc = burstcnt;
-			goto out_err;
-		}
-		burstcnt = min_t(int, burstcnt, len - count - 1);
-		rc = tpm_tis_write_bytes(priv, TPM_DATA_FIFO(priv-
quoted
locality),
-					 burstcnt, buf + count);
-		if (rc < 0)
-			goto out_err;
-
-		count += burstcnt;
-
-		if (wait_for_tpm_stat(chip, TPM_STS_VALID, chip-
quoted
timeout_c,
-					&priv->int_queue, false) < 0) {
-			rc = -ETIME;
-			goto out_err;
-		}
-		status = tpm_tis_status(chip);
-		if (!itpm && (status & TPM_STS_DATA_EXPECT) == 0) {
-			rc = -EIO;
-			goto out_err;
-		}
+	/*
+	 * Get the initial burstcount to ensure TPM is ready to
+	 * accept data.
+	 */
+	burstcnt = get_burstcount(chip);
+	if (burstcnt < 0) {
+		dev_err(&chip->dev, "Unable to read burstcount\n");
+		rc = burstcnt;
+		goto out_err;
 	}

+	rc = tpm_tis_write_bytes(priv, TPM_DATA_FIFO(priv->locality),
+			len - 1, buf);
+	if (rc < 0)
+		goto out_err;
+
 	/* write last byte */
-	rc = tpm_tis_write8(priv, TPM_DATA_FIFO(priv->locality),
buf[count]);
+	rc = tpm_tis_write8(priv, TPM_DATA_FIFO(priv->locality), buf[len-
1]);
 	if (rc < 0)
 		goto out_err;

--
2.13.3
This seems to fail reliably with my SPI TPM 2.0. I get EIO when trying
to send large amounts of data, e.g. with TPM2_Hash, and subsequent
tests seem to take an unusual amount of time. More analysis probably
has to wait until November, since I am going to be in Prague next
week.

Alexander
For the time being I'll drop this patch from the next branch and keep it
in the master branch.

/Jarkko
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