Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as the default dma pad mask

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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:09:58PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>
> OK, thanks. So it's about hardware requrement. Let me make sure if I
> understand crypto alignment issue.
> 
> __crt_ctx needs ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN alignment only because of crypto
> hardware. If I misunderstand it, can you answer my question in the
> previous mail (it's the part that you cut)? That is, why does
> __crt_ctx need ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN alignment with software
> algorithms.

Because the same structure is used for all algorithms!

Why is this so hard to understand?
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