linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] padlock: don't whinge when loaded on a non-VIA cpu

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:37:41 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	kyle@...artin.ca, kmcmartin@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] padlock: don't whinge when loaded on a non-VIA cpu

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:52:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:04:27 -0400
> Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've become seriously tired of seeing these messages on every machine
> > running an i386 Fedora kernel...
> > 
> > padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
> > padlock: VIA PadLock Hash Engine not detected.
> > 
> > So let's eliminate them!
> 
> Silly question - but why are they being printed even for older VIA
> processors. We don't see the following on boot
> 
> i386: no CMOV instruction detected
> i386: no SSE3 instruction detected
> 
> So I think your patch should be a bit more brutal ;)
> 

I completely agree, but I don't know anything about Centaur cpuids...

Something like this might suffice:

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c b/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
index bb30eb9..0192de4 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
@@ -384,6 +384,10 @@ static int __init padlock_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!((boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR) &&
+	     (boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 6)))	/* only on VIA C3 and above */
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	if (!cpu_has_xcrypt) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR PFX "VIA PadLock not detected.\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.c b/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.c
index c666b4e..70ec14b 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.c
@@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ static int __init padlock_init(void)
 {
 	int rc = -ENODEV;
 
+	if (!((boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR) &&
+	     (boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 6)))	/* only on VIA C3 and above */
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	if (!cpu_has_phe) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR PFX "VIA PadLock Hash Engine not detected.\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
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