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Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:57:04 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/19] crypto: x86/sha - limit FPU preemption
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 04:59:16PM -0500, Robert Elliott wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> index 44340a1139e0..a9f5779b41ca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
>  #include <crypto/sha1_base.h>
>  #include <asm/simd.h>
>  
> +#define FPU_BYTES 4096U /* avoid kernel_fpu_begin/end scheduler/rcu stalls */
> +
>  static int sha1_update(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *data,
>  			     unsigned int len, sha1_block_fn *sha1_xform)
>  {
> @@ -41,9 +43,18 @@ static int sha1_update(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *data,
>  	 */
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct sha1_state, state) != 0);
>  
> -	kernel_fpu_begin();
> -	sha1_base_do_update(desc, data, len, sha1_xform);
> -	kernel_fpu_end();
> +	do {
> +		unsigned int chunk = min(len, FPU_BYTES);
> +
> +		if (chunk) {
> +			kernel_fpu_begin();
> +			sha1_base_do_update(desc, data, chunk, sha1_xform);
> +			kernel_fpu_end();
> +		}
> +
> +		len -= chunk;
> +		data += chunk;
> +	} while (len);

'len' can't be 0 at the beginning of this loop, so the 'if (chunk)' check isn't
needed.  And it wouldn't make sense even if 'len' could be 0, since a while loop
could just be used in that case.

- Eric