ioread8() operations to TPM MMIO addresses can stall the CPU when
immediately following a sequence of iowrite*()'s to the same region.
For example, cyclitest measures ~400us latency spikes when a non-RT
usermode application communicates with an SPI-based TPM chip (Intel Atom
E3940 system, PREEMPT_RT kernel). The spikes are caused by a
stalling ioread8() operation following a sequence of 30+ iowrite8()s to
the same address. I believe this happens because the write sequence is
buffered (in CPU or somewhere along the bus), and gets flushed on the
first LOAD instruction (ioread*()) that follows.
The enclosed change appears to fix this issue: read the TPM chip's
access register (status code) after every iowrite*() operation to
amortize the cost of flushing data to chip across multiple instructions.
Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@ni.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230323153436.B2SATnZV@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
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