Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

2017-10-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: >> Many users of kernel async. crypto services have a pattern of >> starting an async. crypto op and than using a completion >> to wait for it to end. >> >> This pat

Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

2017-10-17 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Many users of kernel async. crypto services have a pattern of > starting an async. crypto op and than using a completion > to wait for it to end. > > This patch set simplifies this common use case in two ways: > > First, by separ

Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

2017-10-17 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 02:55:21PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Would you mind if we used ENOSPC instead of E2BIG? > > "No space left on device" seems more appropriate than > "Argument list too long". It's fine by me. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~he

Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

2017-10-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > > Changes from v8: > > - Remove the translation of EAGAIN return code to the > > previous return code of EBUSY for the user space > > interface of algif as no one seem

Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

2017-10-15 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Changes from v8: > - Remove the translation of EAGAIN return code to the > previous return code of EBUSY for the user space > interface of algif as no one seems to rely on it as > requested by Herbert Xu. Sorry, but I forg

[PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

2017-10-15 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Many users of kernel async. crypto services have a pattern of starting an async. crypto op and than using a completion to wait for it to end. This patch set simplifies this common use case in two ways: First, by separating the return codes of the case where a request is queued to a backlog due to