Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:23:55 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: zlib oops with ipcomp in 2.6.24 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:50:11 +0800
> [IPCOMP]: Disable BH on output when using shared tfm > > Because we use shared tfm objects in order to conserve memory, > (each tfm requires 128K of vmalloc memory), BH needs to be turned > off on output as that can occur in process context. > > Previously this was done implicitly by the xfrm output code. > That was lost when it became lockless. So we need to add the > BH disabling to IPComp directly. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, thanks Herbert.
The xfrm output lockless stuff is only in 2.6.25, so we should not need this for -stable right?
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