Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] crypto/Documentation: Add crypto_pool kernel API

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 - 21:06:35 EST


Some extra nits here since you need to respin for the build warning
(include the document in some index / toc tree and adjust the length
of the underscores to match the line length).

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 18:42:57 +0000 Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/crypto_pool.rst b/Documentation/crypto/crypto_pool.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4b8443171421
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/crypto/crypto_pool.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +Per-CPU pool of crypto requests
> +=============
> +
> +Overview
> +--------
> +The crypto pool API manages pre-allocated per-CPU pool of crypto requests,
> +providing ability to use async crypto requests on fast paths, potentially

.. you *don't* enable async crypto in this series, right?

> +on atomic contexts. The allocation and initialization of the requests should

s/on/in/ atomic contexts

> +be done before their usage as it's slow-path and may sleep.
> +
> +Order of operations
> +-------------------
> +You are required to allocate a new pool prior using it and manage its lifetime.

The use of second person is quite uncommon for documentation, but if
you prefer so be it..

> +You can allocate a per-CPU pool of ahash requests by ``crypto_pool_alloc_ahash()``.

You don't need to use the backticks around function names and struct
names. Our doc rendering system recognizes them automatically.

`make htmldocs` to see for yourself.