Re: [PATCH] crypto/Kconfig: warn about performance overhead of CRYPTO_STATS

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On Sat, 20 May 2023 at 19:31, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Make the help text for CRYPTO_STATS explicitly mention that it reduces
> the performance of the crypto API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  crypto/Kconfig | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
> index 42751d63cd4d9..fdf3742f1106b 100644
> --- a/crypto/Kconfig
> +++ b/crypto/Kconfig
> @@ -1393,6 +1393,9 @@ config CRYPTO_STATS
>         help
>           Enable the gathering of crypto stats.
>
> +         Enabling this option reduces the performance of the crypto API.  It
> +         should only be enabled when there is actually a use case for it.
> +
>           This collects data sizes, numbers of requests, and numbers
>           of errors processed by:
>           - AEAD ciphers (encrypt, decrypt)
>
> base-commit: f573db7aa528f11820dcc811bc7791b231d22b1c
> --
> 2.40.1
>



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