[PATCH v3 5/7] crypto: arm64/aes-neonbs - stop using SIMD helper for skciphers

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Wed May 12 13:08:46 PDT 2021


On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 08:44:37PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Calls into the skcipher API can only occur from contexts where the SIMD
> unit is available, so there is no need for the SIMD helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

It would be helpful if the commit message made it clear that "Calls into the
skcipher API can only occur from contexts where the SIMD unit is available" is
something that is now the case but wasn't the case previously.  Otherwise I
could see people backporting this patch without its prerequisites.

Likewise for some of the other patches in this patchset.

- Eric



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