[PATCH 4/6] crypto: talitos - fix GFP flag usage

[Kim Phillips]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:26:14 -0500
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:33:45PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> >>
> >>> use GFP_ATOMIC when necessary; use atomic_t when allocating
> >>> submit_count.
> >>
> >> why?
> >
> > You mean why are atomics required? Yes that is a good question.
> 
> Yep. the commit message isn't explaining why, just what :)

In honouring requests that don't have the CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP set,
afaict, it's the standard non-wait variant GFP that drivers use (see
the ixp4xx driver for e.g.).

Kim