Re: [PATCH crypto v3 0/2] reduce code size from blake2s on m68k and other small platforms

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Jason,

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:05 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert emailed me this afternoon concerned about blake2s codesize on m68k
> and other small systems. We identified two effective ways of chopping
> down the size. One of them moves some wireguard-specific things into
> wireguard proper. The other one adds a slower codepath for small
> machines to blake2s. This worked, and was v1 of this patchset, but I
> wasn't so much of a fan. Then someone pointed out that the generic C
> SHA-1 implementation is still unrolled, which is a *lot* of extra code.
> Simply rerolling that saves about as much as v1 did. So, we instead do
> that in this patchset. SHA-1 is being phased out, and soon it won't
> be included at all (hopefully). And nothing performance-oriented has
> anything to do with it anyway.
>
> The result of these two patches mitigates Geert's feared code size
> increase for 5.17.
>
> v3 improves on v2 by making the re-rolling of SHA-1 much simpler,
> resulting in even larger code size reduction and much better
> performance. The reason I'm sending yet a third version in such a short
> amount of time is because the trick here feels obvious and substantial
> enough that I'd hate for Geert to waste time measuring the impact of the
> previous commit.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
> Jason A. Donenfeld (2):
>   lib/crypto: blake2s: move hmac construction into wireguard
>   lib/crypto: sha1: re-roll loops to reduce code size

Thanks for the series!

On m68k:
add/remove: 1/4 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 4/-4232 (-4228)
Function                                     old     new   delta
__ksymtab_blake2s256_hmac                     12       -     -12
blake2s_init.constprop                        94       -     -94
blake2s256_hmac                              302       -    -302
sha1_transform                              4402     582   -3820
Total: Before=4230537, After=4226309, chg -0.10%

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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