Re: [patch 1/2] crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU erratain ECB mode

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 16:49:50 EST


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

>From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
>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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
>---
>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
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