linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam/qi - simplify CGR allocation, freeing

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Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:21:23 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
Cc:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>, Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@....com>,
        Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam/qi - simplify CGR allocation, freeing

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:09:37PM +0300, Horia Geantă wrote:
> CGRs (Congestion Groups) have to be freed by the same CPU that
> initialized them.
> This is why currently the driver takes special measures; however, using
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is incorrect - as reported by Sebastian.
> 
> Instead of the generic solution of replacing set_cpus_allowed_ptr() with
> work_on_cpu_safe(), we use the qman_delete_cgr_safe() QBMan API instead
> of qman_delete_cgr() - which internally takes care of proper CGR
> deletion.
> 
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005125443.dfhd2asqktm22ney@linutronix.de
> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/caam/qi.c | 43 ++++---------------------------------------
>  drivers/crypto/caam/qi.h |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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