Re: [PATCH -mm crypto] AES: x86_64 asm implementation optimization

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* Herbert Xu | 2008-04-17 11:34:02 [+0800]:

>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
Doesn't this imply that kmalloc() returns memory that is always pointer
aligned what isn't the case AFAIK?

>Thanks,

Sebastian
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