[PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable some newly added crypto modules

[Ard Biesheuvel]

 On 28 February 2017 at 14:01, Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/02/17 18:30, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Enable the new accelerated CRC32(C), CRC-T10DIF and ChaCha20 drivers
>> as modules for multi_v7_defconfig builds.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig
>> index b01a43851294..597e56047747 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig
>> @@ -936,6 +936,9 @@ CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512_ARM=m
>>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM=m
>>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM_BS=m
>>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM_CE=m
>> +CONFIG_CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON=m
>> +CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32_ARM_CE=m
>> +CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF_ARM_CE=m
>>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_GHASH_ARM_CE=m
>>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_AES=m
>>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_TDES=m
>
> Now these are enabled by default, I see the following error ...
>
> AS [M]  arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.o
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:56: Error: unknown architecture `crc'
>
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:138: Error: bad type for scalar -- `vmov dCONSTANTl[0],CRC'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32w r0,r0,r2'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32w r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32w r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32h r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32b r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32b r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:300: Error: bad instruction `crc32h r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32cw r0,r0,r2'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32cw r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32cw r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32ch r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32cb r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32cb r0,r0,r3'
> arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.S:305: Error: bad instruction `crc32ch r0,r0,r3'
> scripts/Makefile.build:395: recipe for target 'arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.o' failed
> make[1]: *** [arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-core.o] Error 1
>
> Yes this is with an older toolchain that uses an older assembler (GNU assembler
> (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.04-20130415 - Linaro GCC 2013.04) 2.23.1),
> however, I am curious if older toolchains not supporting the 'crc' arch_extension
> are deprecated now?
>

Hello Jon,

This is surprising: this implies that there are toolchain that do
support the crypto-neon-fp-armv8 FPU type but not the scalar (i.e.,
non-NEON) CRC instructions. We could easily fix this by adding another
build time test, I just didn't expect we'd need one