Re: CryptoAPI: schedual while atomic

[James Morris]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:

> While I was playing with using the CryptoAPI in /dev/random for my own
> purposes, I noticed that I was getting quite a few "schedual while atomic!"
> console messages.

Where is the code which caused this?  The transforms are safe to use (but
not allocate) in process and softirq contexts.

> Talking with Michal Ludvig, I seem to think that a "!is_atomic()" check
> inside crypto_yield() or passing a flag during crypto_alloc_tfm() would make
> a lot of sense.
> 
> This may be more directed at James Morris, but here it goes:
> 
> Can we have some logic to either check for or turn off crypto_yield()'s in
> crypto/internal.h's crypto_yield() ?

Why?  This should not be needed.


- James
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James Morris
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