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    crypto: arm64/aes-neon-blk - tweak performance for low end cores · 4edd7d01
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    The non-bitsliced AES implementation using the NEON is highly sensitive
    to micro-architectural details, and, as it turns out, the Cortex-A53 on
    the Raspberry Pi 3 is a core that can benefit from this code, given that
    its scalar AES performance is abysmal (32.9 cycles per byte).
    
    The new bitsliced AES code manages 19.8 cycles per byte on this core,
    but can only operate on 8 blocks at a time, which is not supported by
    all chaining modes. With a bit of tweaking, we can get the plain NEON
    code to run at 22.0 cycles per byte, making it useful for sequential
    modes like CBC encryption. (Like bitsliced NEON, the plain NEON
    implementation does not use any lookup tables, which makes it easy on
    the D-cache, and invulnerable to cache timing attacks)
    
    So tweak the plain NEON AES code to use tbl instructions rather than
    shl/sri pairs, and to avoid the need to reload permutation vectors or
    other constants from memory in every round. Also, improve the decryption
    performance by switching to 16x8 pmul instructions for the performing
    the multiplications in GF(2^8).
    
    To allow the ECB and CBC encrypt routines to be reused by the bitsliced
    NEON code in a subsequent patch, export them from the module.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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