Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] Migrate x86 and RISC-V accelerated AES modes into library

[Eric Biggers]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 03:42:51PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series applies to v7.3-rc4.  It can also be retrieved from:
> 
>     git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git aes-lib-x86-riscv-v2
> 
> Patch 1 was already applied to libcrypto-fixes, but is resent to make
> this series applicable directly to v7.3-rc4 (ensuring that the Sashiko
> review runs).  Patches 2-20 are targeting libcrypto-next for 7.4.
> 
> This series migrates the x86 and RISC-V accelerated implementations of
> the AES modes ECB, CBC, CBC-CTS, CTR, XCTR, and XTS into lib/crypto/.
> 
> This makes the corresponding library APIs be properly accelerated on
> these architectures, while still accelerating crypto_skcipher as well
> (via the library-based code in crypto/aes.c).
> 
> It removes a lot of redundant glue code, since crypto API boilerplate no
> longer needs to be duplicated per-architecture.
> 
> Finally, it fixes the longstanding issue where these optimizations were
> disabled by default.
> 
> In the case of RISC-V, this series handles all remaining AES code in
> arch/riscv/crypto/.  In the case of x86, AES-GCM is still left in
> arch/x86/crypto/ for now; it will be handled later.  Other architectures
> will be handled later as well.
> 
> For various reasons, aesni-intel_asm.S (the x86-accelerated ECB, CBC,
> CBC-CTS, CTR, and XTS code that doesn't use AVX or VAES) is replaced
> with new functions written from scratch.  The other assembly functions
> are kept but are modified slightly for integration into the library.
> 

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next

- Eric