[PATCH v2] crypto: powerpc - CRYPT_CRC32C_VPMSUM should depend on ALTIVEC

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Aug 9 08:46:15 AEST 2016


The optimised crc32c implementation depends on VMX (aka. Altivec)
instructions, so the kernel must be built with Altivec support in order
for the crc32c code to build.

Fixes: 6dd7a82cc54e ("crypto: powerpc - Add POWER8 optimised crc32c")
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 crypto/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

v2: No change. Send to linux-crypto.

diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index a9377bef25e3..84d71482bf08 100644
--- a/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ config CRYPTO_CRC32C_INTEL
 
 config CRYPT_CRC32C_VPMSUM
 	tristate "CRC32c CRC algorithm (powerpc64)"
-	depends on PPC64
+	depends on PPC64 && ALTIVEC
 	select CRYPTO_HASH
 	select CRC32
 	help
-- 
2.7.4



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