linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/sha1: use the git implementation of SHA-1

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Date:	Sun, 7 Aug 2011 19:36:03 +0200
From:	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ramsay Jones <ramsay@...say1.demon.co.uk>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/sha1: use the git implementation of SHA-1

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Joachim  Eastwood <manabian@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> I see some ARM asm in your patch, maybe this is the cause?
>
> No, it's just a barrier to make sure the compiler doesn't do crazy
> things, no actual asm instructions involved.
>
> That code is quite well tested in git, so I'm surprised it has any
> problems on arm. It also has zero loops, a hang sounds odd. Can you
> get some more debug information out of it (for example, where it hangs
> - maybe "initcall_debug=1" on the kernel command line?

initcall_debug=1 didn't do anything to the boot log.

But I add some printk's around the calls to sha_init and sha_transform.
...
NET: Registered protocol family 2
extract_buf: call sha_init
extract_buf: call sha_init done
extract_buf: call sha_transform
extract_buf: call sha_transform done
extract_buf: call sha_transform
extract_buf: call sha_transform done
extract_buf: function exit

These printk's come from drivers/char/random.c
So it doesn't seem like it hangs in any of the sha_* funtions.

But I never see any of the printk's I added to net/ipv4/syncookies.c
or net/ipv4/tcp_output.c.

btw, my compiler is: arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 4.3.3

regards
Joachim Eastwood

> The biggest difference with the git sources is the slightly different
> calling conventions (passing the workspace array as an argument is bad
> for code generation, btw - since now gcc doesn't see that the
> workspace accesses are dead) and the fact that the kernel version uses
> kernel macros like "get_unaligned_be32()" rather than it's own
> implementation.
>
>                                      Linus
>
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