Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] crypto: SHA glue code consolidation

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On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This is v4 of what is now a complete glue code consolidation series
> for generic, x86, arm and arm64 implementations of SHA-1, SHA-224/256
> and SHA-384/512.
> 
> The purpose is to have a single, canonical implementation of the core
> logic that gets reused by all versions of the algorithm. Note that this
> is not about saving space in the binary, but about ensuring that the same
> code is used everywhere, reducing the maintenance burden.
> 
> The base layer implements all the update and finalization logic around
> the block transforms, where the prototypes of the latter look something
> like this:
> 
> typedef void (shaXXX_block_fn)(struct sha###_state *, u8 const *src, int blocks)
> 
> Note that the definitions of sha1_state, sha256_state and sha512_state are
> updated to put the state[] member first: this allows us to easily cast
> existing asm implementation that take a state[] member as first argument
> to the above prototype.
> 
> Note that the base functions prototypes are all 'returning int' but
> they all return 0. They should be invoked as tail calls where possible
> to eliminate some of the function call overhead. If that is not possible,
> the return values can be safely ignored.

All applied.  Thanks Ard!
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