Re: Can KEY_DH_OPERATIONS become tristate? (was: Re: Kernel 5.3.0 stuck during boot on Amiga)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi David,

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:54 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > CC crypto keys people
> >
> > TL;DR: CONFIG_CRYPTO_DH=y is reported to cause boot delays of several
> > minutes on old and slow machines.
>
> Why is it doing that?  It doesn't do anything unless it is called, so
> something must be calling it.

I don't know.  Enabling initcall_debug shows that dh_init() takes a very long
time.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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