Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon/hpre - don't use GFP_KERNEL to alloc mem during softirq

From: shaozhengchao
Date: Mon Jul 18 2022 - 23:31:19 EST


On 2022/7/19 10:16, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:10:42AM +0800, Zhengchao Shao wrote:

@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static int hpre_prepare_dma_buf(struct hpre_asym_request *hpre_req,
if (unlikely(shift < 0))
return -EINVAL;
- ptr = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ptr = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, tmp, flags);

How about just using GFP_ATOMIC unconditinoally?

Cheers,

Hi Herbert:
Thank you for your reply. I think differentiate the application scenarios of GFP flags, which can be more suitable to allocate memory.

Zhengchao Shao