On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:26:14 -0500 Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:33:45PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Kim Phillips wrote: > >> > >>> use GFP_ATOMIC when necessary; use atomic_t when allocating > >>> submit_count. > >> > >> why? > > > > You mean why are atomics required? Yes that is a good question. > > Yep. the commit message isn't explaining why, just what :) In honouring requests that don't have the CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP set, afaict, it's the standard non-wait variant GFP that drivers use (see the ixp4xx driver for e.g.). Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
