Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information tocrypto_tfm

[Christophe Saout]

Am Mittwoch, den 09.02.2005, 17:19 -0800 schrieb Andrew Morton:

> > It must be
> >  possible to process more than 2 mappings in softirq context.
> 
> Adding a few more fixmap slots wouldn't hurt anyone.  But if you want an
> arbitrarily large number of them then no, we cannot do that.
> 
> Possibly one could arrange for the pages to not be in highmem at all.

In the case of the LRW use in dm-crypt only plain- and ciphertext need
to be accessible through struct page (both are addressed through BIO
vectors). The LRW tweaks could simply be kmalloced. So instead of
passing "struct scatterlist *tweaksg" we could just pass a "void
*tweaksg".

Some of the hard work on the generic scatterlist walker would be for
nothing then. :(

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