Hi, Anyway, crypto driver is called with CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP flag set. It basically mean it can sleep. But it is not because of kmap_atomic()
So no possibility to know if to use GFP_KERNEL or GFP_ATOMIC. I guess that is not correct way. If driver cannot sleep then CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP should not be set when calling it. Even sync implementation might use HW and sleep a bit while HW is doing calculation... - Dmitry ext Herbert Xu wrote: > Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasat...@nokia.com> wrote: > >> One interesting issue >> >> Many clients in the kernel set CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP to desc.flags. >> It is used by crypto_yeld(). >> > > That flag is really only meaningful for synchronous implementations. > > For hardware crypto that is asynchronous, you can simply ignore it > in most cases (exceptions include invoking a syncrhonous backup, for > example). > > Cheers, > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
