On 3/6/2015 6:48 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:35:23AM +0200, Horia Geantă wrote:
>>
>>> Only potential problem is getting the crypto API to set the GFP_DMA
>>> flag in the allocation request, but presumably a
>>> CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_DMA crt_flag can be made to handle that.
>>
>> Right. And this flag would apply only to request __ctx[].
>>
>> Herbert, would this be an acceptable addition to crypto API?
>
> How would such a flag work?
Hm, I thought that GFP_DMA memory could be allocated only for request
private ctx. This is obviously not the case.
*_request_alloc(tfm, gfp) crypto API functions would do:
if (crypto_tfm_get_flags(tfm) & CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_DMA)
gfp |= GFP_DMA;
Thanks,
Horia
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