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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cryptoapi: Fix sleeping
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > We need in_atomic() so that we can call from regions where preempt is
> > disabled, for instance when using per_cpu crypto tfms.
> >
> > diff -urN -X dontdiff orig/crypto/internal.h work/crypto/internal.h
> > --- orig/crypto/internal.h 2003-07-13 22:29:11.000000000 -0500
> > +++ work/crypto/internal.h 2003-08-12 14:38:54.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> >
> > static inline void crypto_yield(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
> > {
> > - if (!in_softirq())
> > + if (!in_atomic())
> > cond_resched();
>
>
> Do you really want to schedule inside preempt_disable() ?
>

in_atomic() returns false inside spin_lock() on non-preemptive kernels.

Either this code needs to be removed altogether or it should be changed to

BUG_ON(in_atomic());
cond_resched();

and the callers should be fixed up.

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