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Bug#976635: linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto modules missing from kernel config

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From Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
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Subject Bug#976635: linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto modules missing from kernel config
Date Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:30:02 +0100
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Hi Ard,

On vrijdag 11 december 2020 12:26:43 CET Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Are you the same Ard Biesheuvel that 'Signed-off-by' the patch in:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/
> > 8332600d1188a6d88881fc835dfcd392a20f6bfc
> 
> Presumably, yes. But I cannot access that link.

https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/8332600d1188a6d88881fc835dfcd392a20f6bfc
Mail client wrapped the link previously. AFAIK it should be public for all.

> > In that commit a bunch of crypto modules got enabled, but (explicitly) not
> > CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM64_NEON_BLK. Do you recall why that happened? (I
> > realize it's from 2014)
> > There's an important difference between an 'oversight' and explicitly
> > disabling a module and I'd like to have a clarification wrt that.
> 
> This code was written before any hardware existed, and at the time, it
> was not obvious whether it would perform well enough.
> 
> Six years later, we know that this code works fine, and is faster (and
> safer!) than any of the non-NEON alternatives. (On Raspberry Pi 3, the
> non-NEON AES takes 31.5 cycles per byte, whereas the NEON code takes
> around 22 cycles per byte)

Thanks for the clarification :)

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Bug#976635: linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto modules missing from kernel config Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> - 2020-12-06 09:40 +0100
  Bug#976635: linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto modules missing from kernel config Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2020-12-11 12:30 +0100
    Bug#976635: linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto modules missing from kernel config Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> - 2020-12-11 12:40 +0100
      Bug#976635: linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto modules missing from kernel config Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2020-12-11 13:30 +0100
  Bug#976635: marked as done (linux-image-arm64: Accelerated crypto  modules missing from kernel config) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-12-13 12:10 +0100

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