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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 02/20] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:52:04 -0700
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Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
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        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Samuel Neves <sneves@dei.uc.pt>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@gmail.com>
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> On Sep 20, 2018, at 9:30 PM, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wr=
ote:
>=20
>> On 20 September 2018 at 21:15, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote=
:
>> Hi Andy,
>>=20
>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:23 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wr=
ote:
>>> At the risk on suggesting something awful: on x86_64, since we turn pree=
mption off for simd, it wouldn=E2=80=99t be *completely* insane to do the cr=
ypto on the irq stack. It would look like:
>>>=20
>>> kernel_fpu_call(func, arg);
>>>=20
>>> And this helper would disable preemption, enable FPU, switch to the irq s=
tack, call func(arg), disable FPU, enable preemption, and return. And we can=
 have large IRQ stacks.
>>>=20
>>> I refuse to touch this with a ten-foot pole until the lazy FPU restore p=
atches land.
>>=20
>> Haha. That's fun, and maybe we'll do that at some point, but I have
>> some other reasons too for being on a workqueue now.
>>=20
>=20
> Kernel mode crypto is callable from any context, and SIMD can be used
> in softirq context on arm64 (and on x86, even from hardirq context
> IIRC if the interrupt is taken from userland), in which case we'd
> already be on the irq stack.

The x86_64 irq stack handles nesting already.