Re: [PATCH net-next v6 07/23] zinc: ChaCha20 ARM and ARM64 implementations

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 17:50, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 5:45 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So what you have in mind is something like calling simd_relax() every
> > 4096 bytes or so?
>
> That was actually pretty easy, putting together both of your suggestions:
>
> static inline bool chacha20_arch(struct chacha20_ctx *state, u8 *dst,
>                  u8 *src, size_t len,
>                  simd_context_t *simd_context)
> {
>     while (len > PAGE_SIZE) {
>         chacha20_arch(state, dst, src, PAGE_SIZE, simd_context);
>         len -= PAGE_SIZE;
>         src += PAGE_SIZE;
>         dst += PAGE_SIZE;
>         simd_relax(simd_context);
>     }
>     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON) && chacha20_use_neon &&
>         len >= CHACHA20_BLOCK_SIZE * 3 && simd_use(simd_context))
>         chacha20_neon(dst, src, len, state->key, state->counter);
>     else
>         chacha20_arm(dst, src, len, state->key, state->counter);
>
>     state->counter[0] += (len + 63) / 64;
>     return true;
> }

Nice one :-)

This works for me (but perhaps add a comment as well)