linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] crypto: starfive

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Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:09:35 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Jia Jie Ho <jiajie.ho@...rfivetech.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@...il.dk>,
        Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] crypto: starfive - Add hash and HMAC support

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 04:43:37PM +0800, Jia Jie Ho wrote:
>
> The hardware requires user to set a 'final' bit after data transfer completed.
> This completion is to wait for the interrupt signal from device that the final digest 
> has been populated to the read registers.
> 
> I'll do the finalize_request call directly in the next version.

Instead of the IRQ performing a completion, it could instead schedule
a tasklet and do the callback directly from the tasklet.

Actually, the ordering between the IRQ and DMA callback is a bit
confusing.  Which one is supposed to occur first and how does it
interact with the other event?

Cheers,
-- 
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