linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] zram: use crypto decompress

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:47:45 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] zram: use crypto decompress_noctx API

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 04:56:00PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/18/15 14:19), Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> [..]
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Prepare to use crypto decompress_noctx API. One tfm is required
> > +	 * to initialize crypto algorithm properly and fetch corresponding
> > +	 * function pointer. But, it is sharable for multiple concurrent
> > +	 * decompress users.
> > +	 */
> 
> if comp algorithm require zstrm for both compression and decompression,
> then there seems to be no need in allocating sharable ->tfm_noctx, we
> will never use it.
> 

Yes, in that case, NULL will be returned. I should describe it on
somewhere.

Thanks.
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