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Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely

From Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely
Date 2016-10-06 18:50 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:22:45AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 02:23:57PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 
> > I think that they should be fenced then for the sake of consistency.
> > I do not see why sysfs code is privileged not to do fencing while other
> > peers have to do it.
> 
> Certainly the locking could be changed, but it would be nice to have a
> reason other than aesthetics.
> 
> sysfs is not unique, we also do not grab the rwlock lock during any
> commands executed as part of probe. There are basically two locking
> regimes - stuff that is proven to by synchronous with probe/remove
> (sysfs, probe cmds) and everything else (kapi, cdev)
> 
> Further, the current sysfs implementation is nice and sane: the file
> accesses cannot fail with ENODEV. That is a useful concrete property
> and I don't think we should change it without a good reason.

The last point is certainly legit. I think it even might deserve a
comment of its own in tpm_del_char_device.

I think I have a good idea now what to do. Hold on for RFC patch.

> Jason

/Jarkko

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[PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-02 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-02 12:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-02 12:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-02 23:30 +0200
        RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-03 09:10 +0200
          RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-03 09:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-03 14:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-03 18:10 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-03 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-03 14:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-04 07:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-04 18:50 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-05 00:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-05 01:20 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-05 09:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-05 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-05 18:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-05 19:20 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-05 22:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-05 23:20 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-06 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-06 04:10 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-07 16:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-07 21:20 +0200
                RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-07 22:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-08 12:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-05 12:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-05 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-06 13:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-06 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-06 18:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-05 12:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-03 18:10 +0200
            RE: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-10-03 19:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-03 19:40 +0200

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