Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:36:33 +0100 | From | Frank Seidel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][trivial] crypto: tcrypt - reduce stack size |
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Probably people should be reminded tcrypt can only be a module, not built-in, > so it won't waste precious unswappable kernel memory if it's static.
Thats right, but it also doesn't hurt to simply use kmalloc, does it? :-) I just stumbled over tcrypt on the make checkstack output and as also the kerneljanitors todo advises to reduce this footprint where possible i just wanted to help out here.
Thanks, Frank
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