[EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add support for Texas Instruments MCRC64 engine

[Kamlesh Gurudasani]

Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> writes:

> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 20:56, Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh at ti.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add support for MCRC64 engine to calculate 64-bit CRC in Full-CPU mode
>>
>> MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRC)
>> according to the ISO 3309 standard.
>>
>> Generator polynomial: x^64 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1
>> Polynomial value: 0x000000000000001b
>>
>
> How will this code be used? WIthout a user of the crc64-iso crypto API
> algorithm, there is no point in having a driver that implements it.

Thanks for the review.

MCRC64 will be used to check the integrity of memory blocks.
On TI K3 SOCs, users can use MCRC64 to accelerate the integrity check.

>
> Also, *if* such a user exists, we'd need to have a generic C
> implementation as well - we don't add new algorithms unless they can
> be enabled on all platforms and architectures.

If it is must, will implement generic C code.

>
>
>> Tested with
>>
>> and tcrypt,
>> sudo modprobe tcrypt mode=329 sec=1
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh at ti.com>
>> ---
>> Kamlesh Gurudasani (5):
>>       crypto: crc64 - add crc64-iso test vectors
>>       dt-bindings: crypto: Add binding for TI MCRC64 driver
>>       crypto: ti - add driver for MCRC64 engine
>>       arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62: Add dt node, cbass_main ranges for MCRC64
>>       arm64: defconfig: enable MCRC module
>>
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml |  42 +++++++
>>  MAINTAINERS                                             |   7 ++
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62-main.dtsi                |   7 ++
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62.dtsi                     |   1 +
>>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                            |   2 +
>>  crypto/tcrypt.c                                         |   5 +
>>  crypto/testmgr.c                                        |   7 ++
>>  crypto/testmgr.h                                        | 401 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/crypto/Kconfig                                  |   1 +
>>  drivers/crypto/Makefile                                 |   1 +
>>  drivers/crypto/ti/Kconfig                               |  10 ++
>>  drivers/crypto/ti/Makefile                              |   2 +
>>  drivers/crypto/ti/mcrc64.c                              | 360 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  13 files changed, 846 insertions(+)
>> ---
>> base-commit: d7b3af5a77e8d8da28f435f313e069aea5bcf172
>> change-id: 20230719-mcrc-upstream-7ae9a75cab37
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh at ti.com>
>>