Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This series optimizes the Adiantum encryption mode for ARM64 by adding
> an ARM64 NEON accelerated implementation of NHPoly1305, specifically the
> NH part; and by modifying the existing ARM64 NEON implementation of
> ChaCha20 to support XChaCha20 and XChaCha12.
> 
> This greatly improves Adiantum performance on ARM64.  For example,
> encrypting 4096-byte messages (single-threaded) on a Raspberry Pi 3
> Model B v1.2, which has a Cortex-A53 processor:
> 
>                           Before            After
>                           ---------         ---------
> adiantum(xchacha12,aes)    44.1 MB/s         82.7 MB/s
> adiantum(xchacha20,aes)    35.5 MB/s         65.7 MB/s
> 
> Decryption is almost exactly the same speed as encryption.
> 
> The biggest benefit comes from accelerating XChaCha.  Accelerating NH
> gives a somewhat smaller, but still significant benefit.
> 
> Performance on 512-byte inputs is also improved, though that is much
> slower in the first place.  When Adiantium is used with dm-crypt (or
> cryptsetup), we recommend using a 4096-byte sector size.
> 
> For comparison, on the same hardware AES-256-XTS encryption is only
> 24.5 MB/s and decryption 21.6 MB/s, both using the NEON-bitsliced
> implementation ("xts-aes-neonbs").  That is the fastest AES-256-XTS
> implementation on this processor, since it doesn't have the ARMv8
> Cryptography Extensions.  This is despite Adiantum also being a super-
> pseudorandom permutation (SPRP) over the entire sector, unlike XTS.
> 
> Note that XChaCha20 and XChaCha12 can be used for other purposes too.
> 
> Changed since v1:
>  - Create full stack frame in hchacha_block_neon() and
>    chacha_block_xor_neon().
>  - Use x30 instead of lr.
>  - Fix whitespace in nh-neon-core.S.
> 
> Eric Biggers (4):
>  crypto: arm64/nhpoly1305 - add NEON-accelerated NHPoly1305
>  crypto: arm64/chacha20 - add XChaCha20 support
>  crypto: arm64/chacha20 - refactor to allow varying number of rounds
>  crypto: arm64/chacha - add XChaCha12 support
> 
> arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig                     |   7 +-
> arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile                    |   7 +-
> ...hacha20-neon-core.S => chacha-neon-core.S} |  92 +++++---
> arch/arm64/crypto/chacha-neon-glue.c          | 207 ++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c        | 133 -----------
> arch/arm64/crypto/nh-neon-core.S              | 103 +++++++++
> arch/arm64/crypto/nhpoly1305-neon-glue.c      |  77 +++++++
> 7 files changed, 461 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-)
> rename arch/arm64/crypto/{chacha20-neon-core.S => chacha-neon-core.S} (90%)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/chacha-neon-glue.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/nh-neon-core.S
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/nhpoly1305-neon-glue.c

All applied.  Thanks.
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