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From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Cc: "herbert@gondor.apana.org.au" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@nxp.com>,
	"linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com" <linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com>,
	"mripard@kernel.org" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"wens@csie.org" <wens@csie.org>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] crypto: engine: workqueue can only be processed one by one
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:55:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200128165534.GA11610@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200128155800.GB17295@Red>

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:58:00PM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:50:14PM +0000, Horia Geanta wrote:
> > On 1/22/2020 12:46 PM, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > Some bykeshedding are unnecessary since a workqueue can only be executed
> > > one by one.
> > > This behaviour is documented in:
> > > - kernel/kthread.c: comment of kthread_worker_fn()
> > > - Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst: the functions associated with the work items one after the other
> > [...]
> > > @@ -73,16 +73,6 @@ static void crypto_pump_requests(struct crypto_engine *engine,
> > >  
> > >  	spin_lock_irqsave(&engine->queue_lock, flags);
> > >  
> > > -	/* Make sure we are not already running a request */
> > > -	if (engine->cur_req)
> > > -		goto out;
> > > -
> > This check is here for a good reason, namely because crypto engine
> > cannot currently handle multiple crypto requests being in "flight"
> > in parallel.
> > 
> > More exactly, if this check is removed the following sequence could occur:
> > crypto_pump_work() -> crypto_pump_requests() -> .do_one_request(areq1)
> > crypto_pump_work() -> crypto_pump_requests() -> .do_one_request(areq2)
> > crypto_finalize_request(areq1)
> > crypto_finalize_request(areq2)
> > 
> 
> As explained in the commitlog, crypto_pump_work() cannot be ran twice.
> 

Sorry, I have misunderstood and wrongly answered.

Right since some driver does not block on do_one_request(), crypto_pump_work() can be ran one after one and so launch two request.

So this patch is bad.

Regards

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-28 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 10:45 [PATCH 0/9] crypto: engine: permit to handle multiple requests Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/9] crypto: engine: workqueue can only be processed one by one Corentin Labbe
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2020-01-28 15:58     ` Corentin Labbe
2020-01-28 16:55       ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/9] crypto: engine: get rid of cur_req_prepared Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/9] crypto: engine: get rid of cur_req Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 4/9] crypto: engine: permit to choose queue length Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 5/9] crypto: engine: add enqueue_request/can_do_more Corentin Labbe
2020-01-27 22:58   ` Iuliana Prodan
2020-01-28  8:40     ` Corentin Labbe
2020-01-28 11:00       ` Iuliana Prodan
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 6/9] crypto: sun8i-ce: move iv data to request context Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 7/9] crypto: sun8i-ce: increase task list size Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 8/9] crypto: sun8i-ce: split into prepare/run/unprepare Corentin Labbe
2020-01-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 9/9] crypto: sun8i-ce: permit to batch requests Corentin Labbe

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