Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: crypto: add NEON accelerated XOR implementation

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> 在 2018年11月30日,02:20,Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> 写道:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 18:00, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 06:08:58PM +0800, Jackie Liu wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>> +static struct xor_block_template xor_block_arm64 = {
>>>> +     .name   = "arm64_neon",
>>>> +     .do_2   = xor_neon_2,
>>>> +     .do_3   = xor_neon_3,
>>>> +     .do_4   = xor_neon_4,
>>>> +     .do_5   = xor_neon_5
>>>> +};
>>>> +#undef XOR_TRY_TEMPLATES
>>>> +#define XOR_TRY_TEMPLATES           \
>>>> +     do {        \
>>>> +             xor_speed(&xor_block_8regs);    \
>>>> +             xor_speed(&xor_block_32regs);    \
>>>> +             if (cpu_has_neon()) { \
>>>> +                     xor_speed(&xor_block_arm64);\
>>>> +             } \
>>>> +     } while (0)
>>> 
>>> Should there be a may_use_simd() check somewhere?
>>> 
>>> If we invoke this in a softirq I don't see what prevents us from
>>> corrupting the task's NEON state.
>>> 
>>> (The check might be in some surrounding glue code that I missed...)
>>> 
>> 
>> There is no check. This code should simply not be called from
>> non-process context, same as the RAID56 code.
>> 
>> This is not terribly robust, obviously, but appears to be common
>> practice in this realm of the kernel.
> 
> Fair enough -- I was just curious.
> 
> If this goes wrong, we should get a clear splat in kernel_neon_begin()
> anyway.  I'd be more concerned if we could just end up scribbling over
> the NEON state silently.
> 
> Cheers
> —Dave

I checked the code of xor.h for other architectures. except the arm32 
platform has interrupt judgment, and the others are kept simple.

In fact, the xor algorithm is currently only available to RAID456 (maybe?),
I hope it can be simple enough.







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