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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] crypto: AES CBC multi-buffer glue code
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:14:07 -0700
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Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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	"David S.Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 09:19 -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 03:03 +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015, 14:19:29 schrieb Tim Chen:
> > 
> > Hi Tim,
> > 
> > >+
> > >+	/* check for dependent cpu features */
> > >+	if (!cpu_has_aes) {
> > >+		pr_err("aes_cbc_mb_mod_init: no aes support\n");
> > >+		err = -ENODEV;
> > >+		goto err1;
> > >+	}
> > 
> > In your post 0/5, you say that this mechanism needs AVX2. In the existing 
> > AESNI glue code I find
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > #ifdef CONFIG_AS_AVX2
> >         if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVX2)) {
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Why would that CPU check not be needed here?
> 
> Good catch.  Will add check for avx2.

Actually since we are using only XMM registers and SSE instructions,
checking for SSE support will be sufficient.

Tim