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Message-ID: <20080417033402.GB3394@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:34:02 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	Sebastian Siewior <linux-crypto@...breakpoint.cc>,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@...drasil.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm crypto] AES: x86_64 asm implementation optimization

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:52:03AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>
> As far as I know, the CRYPTO_MINALIGN is defined in
> include/linux/crypto.h as __alignof__(unsigned long long), and the
> __crt_ctx in crypto_tfm is aligned in CRYPTO_MINALIGN. So I think adding
> a pad is sufficient for x86_64 implementation.

It should be sufficient but it would be better to use an align
attribute to better document the intention.

Thanks,
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