Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932241Ab2FTLtO (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:49:14 -0400 Received: from sd-mail-sa-01.sanoma.fi ([158.127.18.161]:59894 "EHLO sd-mail-sa-01.sanoma.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932185Ab2FTLtK (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20120620144907.19996rt0vpgn7zys@www.81.fi> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:49:07 +0300 From: Jussi Kivilinna To: Herbert Xu Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: aes - make assembler implementation default for i386 and x86-64 References: <20120530215333.32995tjzj9dr4jwo@www.81.fi> <20120609145055.12766.42439.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20120612082651.GA13419@gondor.apana.org.au> <20120612212518.22246qw5kuyn2osg@www.81.fi> <20120618090201.GA25104@gondor.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20120618090201.GA25104@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.3.7) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1217 Lines: 42 Quoting Herbert Xu : > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:25:18PM +0300, Jussi Kivilinna wrote: >> >> Well, how about letting arch specific assembler implementations >> replace aes-generic >> completely.. in this case add "depends on !X86" on >> CRYPTO_AES_GENERIC. Hardware >> modules get autoloaded (cpuid/pci/platform/etc) but generic >> assembler implementation >> might as well be replacement as it cannot autoload depending on >> hardware support (or >> it can, but will be always loaded). > > Perhaps we can just force a modprobe of a given algorithm at least > once for each boot (when requested for the first time). I think > that should be easy to implement and should solve your problem > scenario. > > What do you think? Well, that could work. -Jussi > > Thanks, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > > -- 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/