[PATCHv3 03/11] crypto: omap-sham: implement context export/import APIs
Tero Kristo
t-kristo at ti.com
Thu Sep 1 00:46:43 PDT 2016
On 01/09/16 10:31, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:28:47AM +0300, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, the flush should do the trick now. Kind of a chicken-egg
>> problem here. :P How do you see the situation with the above
>> explanation?
>
> The export function is not allowed to sleep so you must not wait
> for the hardware to complete in it.
>
> If you need to wait, then you must use the completion mechanism.
I don't think export is allowed to return -EINPROGRESS either? At least
currently the kernel pieces using this functionality won't work if I do
that.
If thats the case, I need to think of something else to handle this...
-Tero
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