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* [PATCH] crypto/Kconfig: warn about performance overhead of CRYPTO_STATS
@ 2023-05-20 17:31 Eric Biggers
  2023-05-20 17:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel
  2023-05-24 10:17 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Biggers @ 2023-05-20 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-crypto

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

Make the help text for CRYPTO_STATS explicitly mention that it reduces
the performance of the crypto API.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 crypto/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index 42751d63cd4d9..fdf3742f1106b 100644
--- a/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -1393,6 +1393,9 @@ config CRYPTO_STATS
 	help
 	  Enable the gathering of crypto stats.
 
+	  Enabling this option reduces the performance of the crypto API.  It
+	  should only be enabled when there is actually a use case for it.
+
 	  This collects data sizes, numbers of requests, and numbers
 	  of errors processed by:
 	  - AEAD ciphers (encrypt, decrypt)

base-commit: f573db7aa528f11820dcc811bc7791b231d22b1c
-- 
2.40.1


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