In the vmx AES init routines we do a printk(KERN_INFO ...) to report the fallback implementation we're using. However with a slow console this can significantly affect the speed of crypto operations. Using 'cryptsetup benchmark' the removal of the printk() leads to a ~5x speedup for aes-cbc decryption. So remove them. Fixes: 8676590a1593 ("crypto: vmx - Adding AES routines for VMX module") Fixes: 8c755ace357c ("crypto: vmx - Adding CBC routines for VMX module") Fixes: 4f7f60d312b3 ("crypto: vmx - Adding CTR routines for VMX module") Fixes: cc333cd68dfa ("crypto: vmx - Adding GHASH routines for VMX module") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.1+ Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c | 2 -- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c | 3 --- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c | 2 -- drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c | 2 -- 4 files changed, 9 deletions(-) If this is the wrong fix please let me know, I'm not a crypto expert. What we see is 'cryptsetup benchmark' causing thousands of these printks() to happen. The call trace is something like: [c000001e47867a60] [c0000000009cf6b4] p8_aes_cbc_init+0x74/0xf0 [c000001e47867ae0] [c000000000551a80] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0x1d0/0x2c0 [c000001e47867b20] [c00000000055aea4] crypto_skcipher_init_tfm+0x124/0x280 [c000001e47867b60] [c00000000055138c] crypto_create_tfm+0x9c/0x1a0 [c000001e47867ba0] [c000000000552220] crypto_alloc_tfm+0xa0/0x140 [c000001e47867c00] [c00000000055b168] crypto_alloc_skcipher+0x48/0x70 [c000001e47867c40] [c00000000057af28] skcipher_bind+0x38/0x50 [c000001e47867c80] [c00000000057a07c] alg_bind+0xbc/0x220 [c000001e47867d10] [c000000000a016a0] __sys_bind+0x90/0x100 [c000001e47867df0] [c000000000a01750] sys_bind+0x40/0x60 [c000001e47867e30] [c00000000000b320] system_call+0x58/0x6c Is it normal for init to be called on every system call? cheers diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c index 96072b9b55c4..d7316f7a3a69 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c @@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ static int p8_aes_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm) alg, PTR_ERR(fallback)); return PTR_ERR(fallback); } - printk(KERN_INFO "Using '%s' as fallback implementation.\n", - crypto_tfm_alg_driver_name((struct crypto_tfm *) fallback)); crypto_cipher_set_flags(fallback, crypto_cipher_get_flags((struct diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c index 7394d35d5936..5285ece4f33a 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c @@ -52,9 +52,6 @@ static int p8_aes_cbc_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm) alg, PTR_ERR(fallback)); return PTR_ERR(fallback); } - printk(KERN_INFO "Using '%s' as fallback implementation.\n", - crypto_skcipher_driver_name(fallback)); - crypto_skcipher_set_flags( fallback, diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c index fc60d00a2e84..cd777c75291d 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c @@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ static int p8_aes_ctr_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm) alg, PTR_ERR(fallback)); return PTR_ERR(fallback); } - printk(KERN_INFO "Using '%s' as fallback implementation.\n", - crypto_skcipher_driver_name(fallback)); crypto_skcipher_set_flags( fallback, diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c index 27a94a119009..1c4b5b889fba 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c @@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ static int p8_ghash_init_tfm(struct crypto_tfm *tfm) alg, PTR_ERR(fallback)); return PTR_ERR(fallback); } - printk(KERN_INFO "Using '%s' as fallback implementation.\n", - crypto_tfm_alg_driver_name(crypto_shash_tfm(fallback))); crypto_shash_set_flags(fallback, crypto_shash_get_flags((struct crypto_shash -- 2.14.1