Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:49:29 +0200
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
       Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata
	in ECB mode
Message-ID: <20090614204929.GA590@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc>
References: <20090610151122.2fcac7d9@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20090610151122.2fcac7d9@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 881
Lines: 24

* Chuck Ebbert | 2009-06-10 15:11:22 [-0400]:

>From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
>crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata in ECB mode
>
>The VIA Nano processor has a bug that makes it prefetch extra data
>during encryption operations, causing spurious page faults. Extend
>existing workarounds for ECB mode to copy the data to an temporary
>buffer to avoid the problem.
>
>Acked-by: HaraldWelte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
>Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
>---
>Against cryptodev.git as requested.

thx for the rebase. Those two patches are a nice cleanup of the ifdef
mess I've made earlier. 

Sebastian
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/