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

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 5:52 PM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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)

As elegant as my quick recursive solution was, gcc produced kind of
bad code from it, as you might expect. So I've implemented this using
a boring old loop that works the way it's supposed to. This is marked
for v7.