linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] dt-bindings: crypto: Add bindings for Starfive crypto driver

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Message-ID: <2886dd64-435d-1cdb-168d-5851c37dc538@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:27:26 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     JiaJie Ho <jiajie.ho@...rfivetech.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>
Cc:     "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] dt-bindings: crypto: Add bindings for Starfive crypto
 driver

On 01/12/2022 10:01, JiaJie Ho wrote:

>>> +
>>> +  enable-side-channel-mitigation:
>>> +    description: Enable side-channel-mitigation feature for AES module.
>>> +        Enabling this feature will affect the speed performance of
>>> +        crypto engine.
>>> +    type: boolean
>>
>> Why exactly this is a hardware (DT) property, not runtime?
>>
> 
> This is a hardware setting provided in StarFive crypto engine only.
> The crypto API doesn't control this setting during runtime and leaving this always on will impact speed performance.
> So, I added this property to allow user to control this in dtb.

Devicetree should not describe policies, so without justification it
does not look like hardware property. Drop.


Best regards,
Krzysztof