Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:33:25 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cryptoapi: Fix sleeping |
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:29:20AM -0700, Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:58, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > This is part of cryptoapi and given the large chunks of work you could > > potentially hand to it, it's probably a good idea for it to work this > > way. You hand it a long list of sg segments, it does the transform and > > reschedules if it thinks it's safe. But its test of when it was safe > > was not complete. > > Right. My concern is that you said sometimes it is called when > preemption is disabled.
Sure, but it's called here rather indirectly. Apparently I'm the first person to try using cryptoapi with per_cpu. And at present there's nothing in the api to tell it "don't do that" - but see my followup patch.
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