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

From: Fruhwirth Clemens
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 14:19:10 EST


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > First, one has to make kmap fallible.
>
> I think it would be relatively simple and sane to modify the existing
> kmap() implementations to add a new try_kmap() which is atomic and returns
> failure if it would have needed to sleep.

Is anyone going to implement that? I would be willing to rework my
scatterwalk code one more time, but I'm not going to touch the kernel
vm.

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Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://clemens.endorphin.org

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