stable request

Ard Biesheuvel
2021-03-16T06:38:33Z

Please consider backporting commit

86ad60a65f29dd862a11c22bb4b5be28d6c5cef1
crypto: x86/aes-ni-xts - use direct calls to and 4-way stride

to stable. It addresses a rather substantial retpoline-related
performance regression in the AES-NI XTS code, which is a widely used
disk encryption algorithm on x86.

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Ard.