Merge branch 'zcrypt-no-alloc'

Harald Freudenberger says:

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This series of patches has the goal to open up a do-not-allocate
memory path from the callers of the pkey in-kernel api down to
the crypto cards and back.

The asynch in-kernel cipher implementations (and the s390 PAES
cipher implementations are one of them) may be called in a
context where memory allocations which trigger IO is not acceptable.

So this patch series reworks the AP bus code, the zcrypt layer,
the pkey layer and the pkey handlers to respect this situation
by processing a new parameter xflags (execution hints flags).
There is a flag PKEY_XFLAG_NOMEMALLOC which tells the code to
not allocate memory which may lead to IO operations.

To reach this goal, the actual code changes have been differed.
The zcrypt misc functions which need memory for cprb build
use a pre allocated memory pool for this purpose. The findcard()
functions have one temp memory area preallocated and protected
with a mutex. Some smaller data is not allocated any more but went
to the stack instead. The AP bus also uses a pre-allocated
memory pool for building AP message requests.

Note that the PAES implementation still needs to get reworked
to run the protected key derivation in a real asynchronous way.
However, this rework of AP bus, zcrypt and pkey is the base work
required before reconsidering the PAES implementation.

The patch series starts bottom (AP bus) and goes up the call
chain (PKEY). At any time in the patch stack it should compile.
For easier review I tried to have one logic code change by
each patch and thus keep the patches "small".
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424133619.16495-1-freude@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

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