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Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:04:50 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: crypto API and GFP_ATOMIC
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 01:11:05PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> Do you have another idea how to solve this problem?

I think the better approach would be to modify the drivers to not
allocate any memory.  In general, any memory needed by the driver
to fulfil a request *should* be allocated within the crypto request
object.  That's why we have the reqsize field to indicate how much
memory could be needed per request.

Thanks,
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