[RFC PATCH 1/8] crypto: shash - add support for finup2x

[Herbert Xu]

Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The new API is part of the "shash" algorithm type, as it does not make
> sense in "ahash".  It does a "finup" operation rather than a "digest"
> operation in order to support the salt that is used by dm-verity and
> fs-verity.  There is no fallback implementation that does two regular
> finups if the underlying algorithm doesn't support finup2x, since users
> probably will want to avoid the overhead of queueing up multiple hashes
> when multibuffer hashing won't actually be used anyway.

For your intended users, will the SIMD fallback ever be invoked?

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