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    crypto: crypto4xx - add backlog queue support · 8ef8d195
    Christian Lamparter authored
    Previously, If the crypto4xx driver used all available
    security contexts, it would simply refuse new requests
    with -EAGAIN. CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG was ignored.
    
    in case of dm-crypt.c's crypt_convert() function this was
    causing the following errors to manifest, if the system was
    pushed hard enough:
    
    | EXT4-fs warning (dm-1): ext4_end_bio:314: I/O error -5 writing to ino ..
    | EXT4-fs warning (dm-1): ext4_end_bio:314: I/O error -5 writing to ino ..
    | EXT4-fs warning (dm-1): ext4_end_bio:314: I/O error -5 writing to ino ..
    | JBD2: Detected IO errors while flushing file data on dm-1-8
    | Aborting journal on device dm-1-8.
    | EXT4-fs error : ext4_journal_check_start:56: Detected aborted journal
    | EXT4-fs (dm-1): Remounting filesystem read-only
    | EXT4-fs : ext4_writepages: jbd2_start: 2048 pages, inode 498...; err -30
    
    (This did cause corruptions due to failed writes)
    
    To fix this mess, the crypto4xx driver needs to notifiy the
    user to slow down. This can be achieved by returning -EBUSY
    on requests, once the crypto hardware was falling behind.
    
    Note: -EBUSY has two different meanings. Setting the flag
    CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG implies that the request was
    successfully queued, by the crypto driver. To achieve this
    requirement, the implementation introduces a threshold check and
    adds logic to the completion routines in much the same way as
    AMD's Cryptographic Coprocessor (CCP) driver do.
    
    Note2: Tests showed that dm-crypt starved ipsec traffic.
    Under load, ipsec links dropped to 0 Kbits/s. This is because
    dm-crypt's callback would instantly queue the next request.
    In order to not starve ipsec, the driver reserves a small
    portion of the available crypto contexts for this purpose.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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