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From: Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger <ken@codelabs.ch>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sha512: make it work, undo percpu message schedule
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:12:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0CE210.1080305@codelabs.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120111000040.GA3801@p183.telecom.by>

On 01/11/2012 01:00 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> commit f9e2bca6c22d75a289a349f869701214d63b5060
> aka "crypto: sha512 - Move message schedule W[80] to static percpu area"
> created global message schedule area.

[snip]

> I personally don't understand this changelog entry:
> 
> 	"The message schedule W (u64[80]) is too big for the stack."
> 
> Hash context is dynamically allocated.

My original patch did the same thing as yours and put the message
schedule on the stack in sha512_transform. Herbert argued [1], that it
was too big and suggested to store it in a static per-cpu area.

[1] - http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org/msg02527.html

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-11  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-11  0:00 sha512: make it work, undo percpu message schedule Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-11  0:12 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-11  0:36 ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-12 23:55   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-13  0:19     ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-13  7:08     ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-13 10:35       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-13 10:41         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-13 10:57           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-13 11:33             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-13 12:34               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-14 18:20                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-14 18:27                   ` [PATCH 1/3] " Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-14 18:40                     ` [PATCH 2/3] sha512: reduce stack usage to safe number Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-14 19:08                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 20:41                         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-14 21:14                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-16  9:56                           ` David Laight
2012-01-16 10:20                             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-16 10:23                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-16 11:37                               ` David Laight
2012-01-17 12:03                               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-18 18:02                                 ` [PATCH 4/3] sha512: reduce stack usage even on i386 Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-26  2:35                                   ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-27 17:51                                     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-27 22:32                                       ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-30 11:10                                         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-03  3:34                                           ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-14 21:46                     ` [PATCH 1/3] sha512: make it work, undo percpu message schedule Eric Dumazet
2012-01-14 21:52                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 22:00                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-15  1:43                     ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-13 11:02         ` Steffen Klassert
2012-01-15  1:43           ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-13 11:45         ` David Laight
2012-01-13 12:35           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-13  6:22   ` Steffen Klassert
2012-01-13  6:46     ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-13  6:48     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-13  6:50       ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-13  9:45       ` David Laight
2012-01-11  1:12 ` Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger [this message]

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