linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] treewide: Update sha

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Date:	Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:57:28 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.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@...xnic.net>,
	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	GeertUytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Update sha_transform

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > Eliminate possible sha_transform unaligned accesses to data by copying
> > data to an aligned __u32 array if necessary.
> This is wrong. Not only does it double the stack space, when I tried
> it for git it just made things slower. So don't do it.

Maybe the aligned copy should be in an
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS block.

Maybe Mandeep could test aligned/unaligned speeds
for his board?

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