Thread (36 messages) 36 messages, 3 authors, 2018-03-02

Re: [PATCH 16/18] crypto: talitos - do hw_context DMA mapping outside the requests

From: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Date: 2018-02-22 12:29:33
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On 2/22/2018 1:47 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:=0A=
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:32:25AM +0000, Horia Geant=E3 wrote:=0A=
quoted
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If final/finup is optional, how is the final hash supposed to be retriev=
ed?=0A=
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Sometimes the computation ends with a partial hash, that's what=0A=
export is for.  Also it is completely legal to abandon the hash=0A=
state entirely.=0A=
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Thanks for the explanation.=0A=
It's unintuitive to call .init() -> .update() and then not to call any of=
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.final(), .finup(), .export().=0A=
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Christophe,=0A=
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IIUC this means that there is no room for improvement.=0A=
This patch needs to be reverted, to restore previous behaviour when the=0A=
hw_context was mapped / unmapped for every request.=0A=
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Thanks,=0A=
Horia=0A=
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