Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] RISC-V: support some cryptography accelerations

Heiko Stuebner
2023-07-14T07:03:07Z

Hi Eric,

Am Freitag, 14. Juli 2023, 08:27:08 CEST schrieb Eric Biggers:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 12:40:42AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 05:37:31PM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > > From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
> > >
> > > This series provides cryptographic implementations using the vector
> > > crypto extensions.
> > >
> > > v13 of the vector patchset dropped the patches for in-kernel usage of
> > > vector instructions, I picked the ones from v12 over into this series
> > > for now.
> > >
> > > My basic goal was to not re-invent cryptographic code, so the heavy
> > > lifting is done by those perl-asm scripts used in openssl and the perl
> > > code used here-in stems from code that is targetted at openssl [0] and is
> > > unmodified from there to limit needed review effort.
> > >
> > > With a matching qemu (there are patches for vector-crypto flying around)
> > > the in-kernel crypto-selftests (also the extended ones) are very happy
> > > so far.
> >
> > Where does this patchset apply to? I tried torvalds/master, linux-next/master,
> > riscv/for-next, and cryptodev/master. Nothing worked. When sending a
> > patch(set), please always use the '--base' option to 'git format-patch', or
> > explicitly mention where it applies to, or provide a link to a git repo.
> >
>
> Hi Heiko, any update on this? I would like to review, and maybe test, this
> patchset but there's no way for me to do so.

sorry about that. As you said, this should've been mentioned in the
cover-letter.

This patchset goes on top of the v6 scalar one [0] which in turn
goes on top of the arch-random patchset [1] and that in turn sits
on top of 6.5-rc1 for me.

Heiko

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230709154243.1582671-1-heiko@sntech.de
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230709115549.2666557-1-sameo@rivosinc.com