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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptoapi: Fix sleeping
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:21:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F3AD5F1.8000901@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030813233957.GE325@waste.org>

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
> --- orig/crypto/internal.h	2003-07-13 22:29:11.000000000 -0500
> +++ 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() ?

As an aside, I think it would be nice if cond_resched could figure out 
for itself whether it is ok to schedule().  Completely eliminate the 
above test entirely, moving it into cond_resched().

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-14  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-13 23:39 [PATCH] cryptoapi: Fix sleeping Matt Mackall
2003-08-14  0:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-08-14  0:34   ` Robert Love
2003-08-14  1:58     ` Matt Mackall
2003-08-14 16:29       ` Robert Love
2003-08-14 16:33         ` Matt Mackall
2003-08-14  0:44   ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-14  2:03     ` Matt Mackall
2003-08-14  7:15       ` Matt Mackall
2003-08-14 17:08         ` James Morris
2003-08-14 20:18           ` Matt Mackall
2003-08-15  3:39             ` James Morris
2003-08-15  3:50               ` Matt Mackall
2003-08-15  4:07                 ` James Morris
2003-08-14  1:54   ` Matt Mackall

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