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Implement a NEON fallback for systems that do support NEON but have no support for the optional 64x64->128 polynomial multiplication instruction that is part of the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions. It is based on the paper "Fast Software Polynomial Multiplication on ARM Processors Using the NEON Engine" by Danilo Camara, Conrado Gouvea, Julio Lopez and Ricardo Dahab (https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01506572) On a 32-bit guest executing under KVM on a Cortex-A57, the new code is not only 4x faster than the generic table based GHASH driver, it is also time invariant. (Note that the existing vmull.p64 code is 16x faster on this core). Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.