Re: stable request

Sasha Levin
2021-03-18T13:03:58Z

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:35:40PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 13:28, Thomas Backlund <tmb@tmb.nu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Den 16.3.2021 kl. 14:15, skrev Thomas Backlund:
>> >
>> > Den 16.3.2021 kl. 12:17, skrev Ard Biesheuvel:
>> >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 10:21, Thomas Backlund <tmb@tmb.nu> wrote:
>> >>> Den 16.3.2021 kl. 08:37, skrev Ard Biesheuvel:
>> >>>> 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.
>> >>>>
>> >>> To get all the nice bits, we added the following in Mageia 5.10 / 5.11
>> >>> series kerenels (the 2 first is needed to get the third to apply/build
>> >>> nicely):
>> >>>
>> >> I will leave it up to the -stable maintainers to decide, but I will
>> >> point out that none of the additional patches fix any bugs, so this
>> >> may violate the stable kernel rules. In fact, I deliberately split the
>> >> XTS changes into two patches so that the first one could be
>> >> backported individually.
>> >
>> > Yes, I understand that.
>> >
>> > but commit
>> >
>> > 86ad60a65f29dd862a11c22bb4b5be28d6c5cef1
>> > crypto: x86/aes-ni-xts - use direct calls to and 4-way stride
>> >
>> > only applies cleanly on 5.11.
>> >
>> >
>> > So if it's wanted in 5.10 you need the 2 others too... unless you intend to provide a tested backport...
>> > and IIRC GregKH prefers 1:1 matching of patches between -stable and linus tree unless they are too intrusive.
>> >
>> >
>> > As for the last one I seem to remember comments that it too was part of the "affects performance", but I might be remembering wrong... and since you are Author of them I assume you know better about the facts :)
>> >
>> >
>> > That's why I listed them as an extra "hopefully helfpful" info and datapoint that they work...
>> > We have been carrying them in 5.10 series since we rebased to 5.10.8 on January 17th, 2021
>> >
>> >
>> > but in the end it's up to the -stable maintainers as you point out...
>>
>>
>> and now I re-checked...
>>
>> Only the first is needed to get your fix to apply cleanly on 5.10
>>
>>
>> the second came in as a pre-req for the fourth patch...
>>
>
>OK so that would be
>
>032d049ea0f45b45c21f3f02b542aa18bc6b6428
>Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
>crypto: aesni - Use TEST %reg,%reg instead of CMP $0,%reg
>
>which is already in 5.11, but needs to be backported as well for the
>originally requested backport to apply cleanly to 5.10 and earlier.
>
>Thanks for digging that up.

Queued up for 5.10 and 5.11.

What about anything older than 5.10? Looks like it's needed there too?

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Thanks,
Sasha