In order to avoid delaying the code longer than necessary while still
giving the TPM enough time to execute the self tests asynchronously, start
with a small delay between two polls and increase it each round.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Steffen <alexander.stef...@infineon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
index 8e940a5..2178437 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
@@ -877,20 +877,17 @@ static int tpm2_start_selftest(struct tpm_chip *chip, 
bool full)
 static int tpm2_do_selftest(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 {
        int rc;
-       unsigned int loops;
-       unsigned int delay_msec = 100;
-       unsigned long duration;
-       int i;
-
-       duration = tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(chip, TPM2_CC_SELF_TEST);
+       unsigned int delay_msec = 20;
+       long duration;
 
-       loops = jiffies_to_msecs(duration) / delay_msec;
+       duration = jiffies_to_msecs(
+               tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(chip, TPM2_CC_SELF_TEST));
 
        rc = tpm2_start_selftest(chip, false);
        if (rc)
                return rc;
 
-       for (i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
+       while (duration > 0) {
                /* Attempt to read a PCR value */
                rc = tpm2_pcr_read(chip, 0, NULL);
                if (rc < 0)
@@ -900,6 +897,10 @@ static int tpm2_do_selftest(struct tpm_chip *chip)
                        break;
 
                tpm_msleep(delay_msec);
+               duration -= delay_msec;
+
+               /* wait longer the next round */
+               delay_msec *= 2;
        }
 
        return rc;
-- 
2.7.4


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