crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
A dedicated workqueue named kcrypto_wq is created to be used by crypto
subsystem. The system shared keventd_wq is not suitable for
encryption/decryption, because of potential starvation problem.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
diff --git a/include/crypto/crypto_wq.h b/include/crypto/crypto_wq.h
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+++ b/include/crypto/crypto_wq.h
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+#ifndef CRYPTO_WQ_H
+#define CRYPTO_WQ_H
+
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+
+extern struct workqueue_struct *kcrypto_wq;
+#endif