linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon/hpre - don't use GFP

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:47:31 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     shaozhengchao <shaozhengchao@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        liulongfang@...wei.com, davem@...emloft.net, xuzaibo@...wei.com,
        weiyongjun1@...wei.com, yuehaibing@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon/hpre - don't use GFP_KERNEL to alloc
 mem during softirq

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 11:31:02AM +0800, shaozhengchao wrote:
>
> 	Thank you for your reply. I think differentiate the application scenarios
> of GFP flags, which can be more suitable to allocate memory.

You need to have a very strong reason to do this.  I don't think
it's appropriate here.

Cheers,
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