[PATCH] crypto: fix FTBFS with ARM SHA1-asm and THUMB2_KERNEL

[Jussi Kivilinna]

Quoting Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at mbnet.fi>:

> Quoting Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com>:
>
>> This question is to the implementor/committer (Dave McCullough), how
>> exactly did you measure the benchmark and can we reproduce it on some
>> other ARM box?
>>
>> If it's long and laborious and not so important to test the IPsec
>> tunnel use-case, what would be the simplest possible benchmark to see
>> if the C vs. assembly version is faster for a particular ARM device? I
>> can get hold of pretty much any Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 that matters, I
>> have access to a Chromebook for A15, and maybe an i.MX27 or i.MX35 and
>> a couple Marvell boards (ARMv6) if I set my mind to it... that much
>> testing implies we find a pretty concise benchmark though with a
>> fairly common kernel version we can spread around (i.MX, OMAP and the
>> Chromebook, I can handle, the rest I'm a little wary of bothering to
>> spend too much time on). I think that could cover a good swath of
>> not-ARMv5 use cases from lower speeds to quad core monsters.. but I
>> might stick to i.MX to start with..
>
> There is 'tcrypt' module in crypto/ for quick benchmarking.  
> 'modprobe tcrypt mode=500 sec=1' tests AES in various cipher-modes,  
> using different buffer sizes and outputs results to kernel log.
>

Actually mode=200 might be better, as mode=500 is for asynchronous  
implementations and might use hardware crypto if such device/module is  
available.

-Jussi