[PATCH 0/9] POLYVAL library
Eric Biggers
ebiggers at kernel.org
Tue Nov 11 11:28:15 PST 2025
On Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 03:47:15PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series is targeting libcrypto-next. It can also be retrieved from:
>
> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git polyval-lib-v1
>
> This series migrates the POLYVAL code to lib/crypto/. It turns out that
> just like Poly1305, the library is a much better fit for it.
>
> This series also replaces the generic implementation of POLYVAL with a
> much better one.
>
> Notably, this series improves the performance of HCTR2, since it
> eliminates unnecessary overhead that was being incurred by accessing
> POLYVAL via the crypto_shash API. I see a 45% increase in throughput
> with 64-byte messages, 53% with 128-byte, or 6% with 4096-byte.
>
> It also eliminates the need to explicitly enable the optimized POLYVAL
> code, as it's now enabled automatically when HCTR2 support is enabled.
>
> Eric Biggers (9):
> crypto: polyval - Rename conflicting functions
> lib/crypto: polyval: Add POLYVAL library
> lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests for POLYVAL
> lib/crypto: arm64/polyval: Migrate optimized code into library
> lib/crypto: x86/polyval: Migrate optimized code into library
> crypto: hctr2 - Convert to use POLYVAL library
> crypto: polyval - Remove the polyval crypto_shash
> crypto: testmgr - Remove polyval tests
> fscrypt: Drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized POLYVAL
>
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next
- Eric
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