linux-kernel - Re: Clarification of allowed context for crypto routines

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Date:	Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:32:45 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clarification of allowed context for crypto routines

Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> wrote:
> 
> On 24 января 2009 01:31:50 Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> 2) The highmem primitives we use are currently softirq only.  We
>> could make them work for hardirq as well, but because of 1) we
>> didn't.
> 
> Could you point to example of such primitive in code under crypto?

Grep for kmap under crypto.

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