linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH crypto] AES: Add support to Intel AES-NI instructions

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Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:28:46 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <linux-crypto@...breakpoint.cc>
Cc:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH crypto] AES: Add support to Intel AES-NI
	instructions

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:07:45AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
> You have to it if you want to bypass the crypto layer and call asm
> functions directly and I'm not sure whether bypassing the crypto layer
> is a good thing. Both asm routines (the 32bit and 64bit) assume that
> keylen ist at +0 followed by enc key, dec key. Ach and they don't do the
> ALIGN thing.
> 
> Herbert what do you thing?

I think it would be OK if it called the assembly routine directly
and we moved this under asm/x86-64.  We should do the latter anyway
regardless of what we decide.

However, I'm skeptical about whether we should use of a fallback at
all rather than making this work in softirq context.

Cheers,
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