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Re: [PATCH 5/5] tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer

From Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 5/5] tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer
Date 2017-02-17 06:20 +0100
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Are you sure it is not better to introduce this delay directly in the 
rpi spi driver ?

Other than that i don't see any issue with it.


On 16/02/2017 08:09, Peter Huewe wrote:
> Testing the implementation with a Raspberry Pi 2 showed that under some
> circumstances its SPI master erroneously releases the CS line before the
> transfer is complete, i.e. before the end of the last clock. In this case
> the TPM ignores the transfer and misses for example the GO command. The
> driver is unable to detect this communication problem and will wait for a
> command response that is never going to arrive, timing out eventually.
>
> As a workaround, the small delay ensures that the CS line is held long
> enough, even with a faulty SPI master. Other SPI masters are not affected,
> except for a negligible performance penalty.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Fixes: 0edbfea537d1 ("tpm/tpm_tis_spi: Add support for spi phy")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Steffen <Alexander.Steffen@infineon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peter.huewe@infineon.com>
> ---
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c
> index b50c5b072df3..685c51bf5d7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ static int tpm_tis_spi_transfer(struct tpm_tis_data *data, u32 addr, u8 len,
>   
>   		spi_xfer.cs_change = 0;
>   		spi_xfer.len = transfer_len;
> +		spi_xfer.delay_usecs = 5;
>   
>   		if (direction) {
>   			spi_xfer.tx_buf = NULL;

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[PATCH 5/5] tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer Peter Huewe <peter.huewe@infineon.com> - 2017-02-16 17:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/5] tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 06:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/5] tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de> - 2017-02-17 08:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/5] tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-24 14:10 +0100

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