This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: crc32-pclmul - Use gas macro for pclmulqdq to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: crypto-crc32-pclmul-use-gas-macro-for-pclmulqdq.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 57ae1b0532977b30184aaba04b6cafe0a284c21f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sandy Wu <sandyw@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:05:44 -0700 Subject: crypto: crc32-pclmul - Use gas macro for pclmulqdq From: Sandy Wu <sandyw@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 57ae1b0532977b30184aaba04b6cafe0a284c21f upstream. Occurs when CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C_INTEL=y and CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C_INTEL=y. Older versions of bintuils do not support the pclmulqdq instruction. The PCLMULQDQ gas macro is used instead. Signed-off-by: Sandy Wu <sandyw@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ * SOFTWARE. */ +#include <asm/inst.h> + ## ISCSI CRC 32 Implementation with crc32 and pclmulqdq Instruction .macro LABEL prefix n @@ -224,10 +226,10 @@ LABEL crc_ %i movdqa (bufp), %xmm0 # 2 consts: K1:K2 movq crc_init, %xmm1 # CRC for block 1 - pclmulqdq $0x00,%xmm0,%xmm1 # Multiply by K2 + PCLMULQDQ 0x00,%xmm0,%xmm1 # Multiply by K2 movq crc1, %xmm2 # CRC for block 2 - pclmulqdq $0x10, %xmm0, %xmm2 # Multiply by K1 + PCLMULQDQ 0x10, %xmm0, %xmm2 # Multiply by K1 pxor %xmm2,%xmm1 movq %xmm1, %rax Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sandyw@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/crypto-crc32-pclmul-use-gas-macro-for-pclmulqdq.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html