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

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 08:22, Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh at ti.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Where is the implementation of this logic? Does it use the shash/ahash API?

If so, it should be part of this series.


> >
> > 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>
> >>