Re: [PATCH] cryptoapi: Fix sleeping

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 21:07:49 EST


On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:44:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > We need in_atomic() so that we can call from regions where preempt is
> > > disabled, for instance when using per_cpu crypto tfms.
> > >
> > > diff -urN -X dontdiff orig/crypto/internal.h work/crypto/internal.h
> > > +++ work/crypto/internal.h 2003-08-12 14:38:54.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> > >
> > > static inline void crypto_yield(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
> > > {
> > > - if (!in_softirq())
> > > + if (!in_atomic())
> > > cond_resched();
> >
> >
> > Do you really want to schedule inside preempt_disable() ?
> >
>
> in_atomic() returns false inside spin_lock() on non-preemptive kernels.
>
> Either this code needs to be removed altogether or it should be changed to
>
> BUG_ON(in_atomic());
> cond_resched();
>
> and the callers should be fixed up.

Cryptoapi probably needs a flag for skipping the yield. I'll look into it.

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Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon
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