linux/crypto/async_tx
Dan Williams 95475e5711 async_tx: remove walk of tx->parent chain in dma_wait_for_async_tx
We currently walk the parent chain when waiting for a given tx to
complete however this walk may race with the driver cleanup routine.
The routines in async_raid6_recov.c may fall back to the synchronous
path at any point so we need to be prepared to call async_tx_quiesce()
(which calls  dma_wait_for_async_tx).  To remove the ->parent walk we
guarantee that every time a dependency is attached ->issue_pending() is
invoked, then we can simply poll the initial descriptor until
completion.

This also allows for a lighter weight 'issue pending' implementation as
there is no longer a requirement to iterate through all the channels'
->issue_pending() routines as long as operations have been submitted in
an ordered chain.  async_tx_issue_pending() is added for this case.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29 19:09:27 -07:00
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async_memcpy.c async_tx: kill needless module_{init|exit} 2009-08-29 19:09:26 -07:00
async_memset.c async_tx: kill needless module_{init|exit} 2009-08-29 19:09:26 -07:00
async_tx.c async_tx: remove walk of tx->parent chain in dma_wait_for_async_tx 2009-08-29 19:09:27 -07:00
async_xor.c async_tx: add sum check flags 2009-08-29 19:09:26 -07:00
Kconfig async_tx: add the async_tx api 2007-07-13 08:06:14 -07:00
Makefile async_tx: add the async_tx api 2007-07-13 08:06:14 -07:00