linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/12] RISC-V: crypto: add accelerated AES-CBC/CTR/ECB/XTS implementations

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Message-ID: <20231120192802.GB964@sol.localdomain>
Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:28:02 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Jerry Shih <jerry.shih@...ive.com>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, palmer@...belt.com,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        davem@...emloft.net, andy.chiu@...ive.com, greentime.hu@...ive.com,
        conor.dooley@...rochip.com, guoren@...nel.org, bjorn@...osinc.com,
        heiko@...ech.de, ardb@...nel.org, phoebe.chen@...ive.com,
        hongrong.hsu@...ive.com, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] RISC-V: crypto: add accelerated
 AES-CBC/CTR/ECB/XTS implementations

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 10:47:29AM +0800, Jerry Shih wrote:
> > There's no fallback for !crypto_simd_usable() here.  I really like it this way.
> > However, for it to work (for skciphers and aeads), RISC-V needs to allow the
> > vector registers to be used in softirq context.  Is that already the case?
> 
> I turn to use simd skcipher interface. More details will be in the v2 patch set.

Thanks.  Later, I suspect that we'll want to make the vector unit usable in
softirq context directly.  But for now I suppose the SIMD helper is tolerable.

- Eric