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Currently, the AES-GCM implementation for arm64 systems that support the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions is based on the generic GCM module, which combines the AES-CTR implementation using AES instructions with the PMULL based GHASH driver. This is suboptimal, given the fact that the input data needs to be loaded twice, once for the encryption and again for the MAC calculation. On Cortex-A57 (r1p2) and other recent cores that implement micro-op fusing for the AES instructions, AES executes at less than 1 cycle per byte, which means that any cycles wasted on loading the data twice hurt even more. So implement a new GCM driver that combines the AES and PMULL instructions at the block level. This improves performance on Cortex-A57 by ~37% (from 3.5 cpb to 2.6 cpb) 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.