[PATCH] powerpc/configs: Enable VMX crypto

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jul 14 20:13:36 AEST 2016


Anton Blanchard <anton at ozlabs.org> writes:

> From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
>
> We see big improvements with the VMX crypto functions (often 10x or more),
> so enable it as a module.

I can't build pseries_defconfig with this applied:

  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Error: .size expression for aes_p8_set_encrypt_key does not evaluate to a constant
  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Error: .size expression for aes_p8_set_decrypt_key does not evaluate to a constant
  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Error: .size expression for aes_p8_encrypt does not evaluate to a constant
  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Error: .size expression for aes_p8_decrypt does not evaluate to a constant
  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Error: .size expression for aes_p8_cbc_encrypt does not evaluate to a constant
  /tmp/ccsjEdNB.s: Error: .size expression for aes_p8_ctr32_encrypt_blocks does not evaluate to a constant

That's with GCC 6.1.0 / binutils 2.26.

Haven't debugged it any further.

cheers


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