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The AES-NI code contains fallbacks for invocations that occur from a context where the SIMD unit is unavailable, which really only occurs when running in softirq context that was entered from a hard IRQ that was taken while running kernel code that was already using the FPU. That means performance is not really a consideration, and we can just use the new library code for this use case, which has a smaller footprint and is believed to be time invariant. This will allow us to drop the non-SIMD asm routines in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.