Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: encrypted swap on loop in 2.4.10-pre12? | From | "steve j. kondik" <> | Date | 20 Sep 2001 09:17:28 -0400 |
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loop-aes does not work to encrypt swap using 2.4.10-pre12. the same panic results during mkswap.
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 08:25, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20 2001, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20 2001, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > > > Cryptoapi can't be used to encrypt swap. It has nasties like sleeping in > > > > make_request_fn() and potential memory allocation deadlock. > > > > > > sleeping in make_request_fn is not a nasty in itself, btw. in fact loop > > > just needs an emergency page pool for swap to be perfectly safe. > > > > loop-AES provides emergency page pool for device backed loop. Take a look. > > Then sleeping in make_request_fn is not a nasty at all. In fact the > kernel does it all the time anyways. > -- http://chemlab.org - email shade-pgpkey@chemlab.org for pgp public key chemlab radio! - drop out @ http://mp3.chemlab.org:8000 24-7-365
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