[PATCH] crypto: crc32c-vpmsum - Convert to CPU feature based module autoloading

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Aug 4 18:38:00 AEST 2016


Anton Blanchard <anton at ozlabs.org> writes:

> From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
>
> This patch utilises the GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE infrastructure
> to automatically load the crc32c-vpmsum module if the CPU supports
> it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/crypto/crc32c-vpmsum_glue.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc32c-vpmsum_glue.c b/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc32c-vpmsum_glue.c
> index bfe3d37..9fa046d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc32c-vpmsum_glue.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc32c-vpmsum_glue.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/cpufeature.h>
>  #include <asm/switch_to.h>
>  
>  #define CHKSUM_BLOCK_SIZE	1
> @@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ static void __exit crc32c_vpmsum_mod_fini(void)
>  	crypto_unregister_shash(&alg);
>  }
>  
> -module_init(crc32c_vpmsum_mod_init);
> +module_cpu_feature_match(PPC_MODULE_FEATURE_VEC_CRYPTO, crc32c_vpmsum_mod_init);

Is VEC_CRYPTO the right feature?

That's new power8 crypto stuff.

I thought this only used VMX? (but I haven't looked closely)

cheers


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