Re: [PATCH -mm crypto] AES: x86_64 asm implementation optimization

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:28:43AM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> >> __crt_ctx in crypto_tfm is aligned in CRYPTO_MINALIGN. So I think adding
> >> a pad is sufficient for x86_64 implementation.
> >
> >It should be sufficient but it would be better to use an align
> Doesn't this imply that kmalloc() returns memory that is always pointer
> aligned what isn't the case AFAIK?

Parse error :)

kmalloc returns memory that should always be aligned to
CRYPTO_MINALIGN and in particular it's always pointer aligned.

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