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Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:25:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>,
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ramsay Jones <ramsay@...say1.demon.co.uk>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/sha1: use the git implementation of SHA-1
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > yes, this works. At least my board boots as normal.
>
> Ok, I'll remove it for -rc1, just to have a working ARM setup. Maybe
> we can re-introduce it later (either together with some arm-specific
> hack for SHA_WORKSPACE_WORDS or by having an arm-optimized version of
> the *good* sha1 routine).
>
> But I doubt it: there used to be an ARM-optimized thing in git too. It
> was removed two years ago with the commit message:
>
> remove ARM and Mozilla SHA1 implementations
>
> They are both slower than the new BLK_SHA1 implementation, so it is
> pointless to keep them around.
>
> and quite frankly, that removed code seems to be the same as the
> in-kernel one. So I bet the ARM "optimized" SHA1 is simply not worth
> keeping around.
Indeed. The ARM code in the kernel is mine:
|commit c09f98271f685af349d3f0199360f1c0e85550e0
|Author: Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
|Date: Fri Oct 28 15:26:40 2005 +0100
|
| [ARM] 2930/1: optimized sha1 implementation for ARM
|
| Patch from Nicolas Pitre
|
| Here's an ARM assembly SHA1 implementation to replace the default C
| version. It is approximately 50% faster than the generic C version. On
| an XScale processor running at 400MHz:
| generic C version: 9.8 MB/s
| my version: 14.5 MB/s
[...]
I eventually added it to Git as well. After a while I worked on the C
version in Git:
|$ git log --reverse --oneline --author="Nicolas Pitre" git/block-sha1/
|30ba0de block-sha1: move code around
|dc52fd2 block-sha1: split the different "hacks" to be individually selected
|660231a block-sha1: support for architectures with memory alignment restrictions
|ee7dc31 block-sha1: more good unaligned memory access candidates
|d5f6a96 block-sha1: make the size member first in the context struct
|51ea551 make sure byte swapping is optimal for git
|e9c5dcd block-sha1: guard gcc extensions with __GNUC__
|30ae47b remove ARM and Mozilla SHA1 implementations
I therefore think that the ARM version in the kernel should also be
removed if the Git C version goes in.
Nicolas
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