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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list
	<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: avoid inefficient use of crc32_le_combine()
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 11:28:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250511182836.21611-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

bcm963xx_nvram_checksum() was using crc32_le_combine() to update a CRC
with four zero bytes.  However, this is about 5x slower than just
CRC'ing four zero bytes in the normal way.  Just do that instead.

(We could instead make crc32_le_combine() faster on short lengths.  But
all its callers do just fine without it, so I'd like to just remove it.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---

Please consider this patch for the mips tree for 6.16.  If it doesn't
get picked up, I'll take it through the crc tree.

 include/linux/bcm963xx_nvram.h | 16 ++++++----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bcm963xx_nvram.h b/include/linux/bcm963xx_nvram.h
index c8c7f01159fed..48830bf180427 100644
--- a/include/linux/bcm963xx_nvram.h
+++ b/include/linux/bcm963xx_nvram.h
@@ -79,29 +79,25 @@ static inline u64 __pure bcm963xx_nvram_nand_part_size(
  */
 static int __maybe_unused bcm963xx_nvram_checksum(
 	const struct bcm963xx_nvram *nvram,
 	u32 *expected_out, u32 *actual_out)
 {
+	const u32 zero = 0;
 	u32 expected, actual;
 	size_t len;
 
 	if (nvram->version <= 4) {
 		expected = nvram->checksum_v4;
-		len = BCM963XX_NVRAM_V4_SIZE - sizeof(u32);
+		len = BCM963XX_NVRAM_V4_SIZE;
 	} else {
 		expected = nvram->checksum_v5;
-		len = BCM963XX_NVRAM_V5_SIZE - sizeof(u32);
+		len = BCM963XX_NVRAM_V5_SIZE;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Calculate the CRC32 value for the nvram with a checksum value
-	 * of 0 without modifying or copying the nvram by combining:
-	 * - The CRC32 of the nvram without the checksum value
-	 * - The CRC32 of a zero checksum value (which is also 0)
-	 */
-	actual = crc32_le_combine(
-		crc32_le(~0, (u8 *)nvram, len), 0, sizeof(u32));
+	/* Calculate the CRC32 of the nvram with the checksum field set to 0. */
+	actual = crc32_le(~0, nvram, len - sizeof(u32));
+	actual = crc32_le(actual, &zero, sizeof(u32));
 
 	if (expected_out)
 		*expected_out = expected;
 
 	if (actual_out)

base-commit: 3ce9925823c7d6bb0e6eb951bf2db0e9e182582d
-- 
2.49.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-05-11 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-11 18:28 Eric Biggers [this message]
2025-05-20  6:56 ` [PATCH] MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: avoid inefficient use of crc32_le_combine() Thomas Bogendoerfer

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