I rather like this option of padata, which, since it lives in
kernel/padata.c and linux/padata.h, should be generic and useful for
other components. Seems like the ability to allocate it for a
particular set of worker CPUs and callback CPUs could be useful down
the line. Would rather not see it bec
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
pcrypt_init_padata()
get_online_cpus()
padata_alloc_possible()
padata_alloc()
get_online_cpus()
The nested call to get_online_cpus() works with the current implementation,
but prevents the conversion to a percpu rwsem.
The other caller of padata
No users outside of padata.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Steffen Klassert
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
---
include/linux/padata.h |3 ---
kernel/padata.c| 34 +-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/pada
