Re: DMA map buffer allocated in ahash_request_ctx

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On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 04:13:12PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Harsh Jain <harshjain.prof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Herbert,
> >
> > Can we use buffer defined in ahash request context(private space for
> > each request) to DMA map it to H/W.?
> 
> Not Herbert but... the ccree driver is doing just and Herbert
> specifically indicated ahash request contexts are not allowed to be
> allocated from stack (I asked) so it should be OK.

That's right.  For async algorithms the request must come from
kmalloc memory.

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