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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 03/10] Add persistent state handling to TPM T
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Markus Armbruster |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 03/10] Add persistent state handling to TPM TIS frontend driver |
Date: |
Wed, 18 May 2011 09:25:58 +0200 |
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Stefan Berger <address@hidden> writes:
> This patch adds support for handling of persistent state to the TPM TIS
> frontend.
>
> The currently used buffer is determined (can only be in currently active
> locality and either be a read or a write buffer) and only that buffer's
> content
> is stored. The reverse is done when the state is restored from disk
> where the buffer's content are copied into the currently used buffer.
>
> To keep compatibility with existing Xen the VMStateDescription was adapted
> to be compatible with existing state. For that I am adding Andreas
> Niederl as an author to the file.
>
> v4:
> - main thread releases the 'state' lock while periodically calling the
> backends function that may request it to write data into block storage.
>
> v3:
> - all functions prefixed with tis_
> - while the main thread is waiting for an outstanding TPM command to finish,
> it periodically does some work (writes data to the block storage)
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <address@hidden>
>
> ---
> hw/tpm_tis.c | 167
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 167 insertions(+)
>
> Index: qemu-git/hw/tpm_tis.c
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu-git.orig/hw/tpm_tis.c
> +++ qemu-git/hw/tpm_tis.c
[...]
> +static ISADeviceInfo tis_device_info = {
> + .init = tis_init,
> + .qdev.name = "tpm-tis",
> + .qdev.size = sizeof(TPMState),
> + .qdev.no_user = 1,
> + .qdev.vmsd = &vmstate_tis,
> + .qdev.reset = tis_reset,
> + .qdev.props = (Property[]) {
> + DEFINE_PROP_UINT8("active_locality", TPMState,
> + active_locty, NO_LOCALITY),
> + DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("irq", TPMState,
> + irq_num, TPM_TIS_IRQ),
> + DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
> + },
> +};
> +
> +
> +static void tis_register_device(void)
> +{
> + isa_qdev_register(&tis_device_info);
> +}
> +
> +device_init(tis_register_device)
Why is this device no_user?
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 00/10] Qemu Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 04/10] Add tpm_tis driver to build process, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 10/10] Encrypt state blobs using AES CBC encryption, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 09/10] Add block storage support for libtpms based TPM backend, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 03/10] Add persistent state handling to TPM TIS frontend driver, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 03/10] Add persistent state handling to TPM TIS frontend driver,
Markus Armbruster <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 08/10] Introduce file lock for the block layer, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 05/10] Add a debug register, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 07/10] Implementation of the libtpms-based backend, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 01/10] Support for TPM command line options, Stefan Berger, 2011/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 01/10] Support for TPM command line options, Serge E. Hallyn, 2011/05/17