Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272066AbTHNAVX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:21:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272067AbTHNAVX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:21:23 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:29371 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272066AbTHNAVW (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:21:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3AD5F1.8000901@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:21:05 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Mackall CC: James Morris , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptoapi: Fix sleeping References: <20030813233957.GE325@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20030813233957.GE325@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 31 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/