From: Chuck Ebbert cebb...@redhat.com
crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata in ECB mode
The VIA Nano processor has a bug that makes it prefetch extra data
during encryption operations, causing spurious page faults. Extend
existing workarounds for ECB mode to copy the data to an
From: Chuck Ebbert cebb...@redhat.com
crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata in CBC mode
Extend previous workarounds for the prefetch bug to cover CBC mode,
clean up the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert cebb...@redhat.com
--- work-2.6.29.4.orig/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
+++
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebast...@breakpoint.cc
crypto: padlock-aes: enable on 64-bit kernels
The only required change now is using the right push/pop instruction
on x86-64. Taken from the original patch by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
(Added a dependency on X86.)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:35:33 -0400
Chuck Ebbert cebb...@redhat.com wrote:
The VIA Nano has a bug that makes the padlock unit fetch extra data
during encryption operations. Add workarounds for that, and enable
the driver on x86_64.
1/3 Fix ECB encryption mode
2/3 Fix CBC mode, clean up code
* Chuck Ebbert | 2009-06-09 10:35:33 [-0400]:
The VIA Nano has a bug that makes the padlock unit fetch extra data
during encryption operations. Add workarounds for that, and enable
the driver on x86_64.
Nice. The X86_64 padlock will make it mainline in next merge window so
I'm asking you kindly
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:35:33AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
The VIA Nano has a bug that makes the padlock unit fetch extra data
during encryption operations. Add workarounds for that, and enable
the driver on x86_64.
Thanks!
Where did you get the errata from, and what kind of document /
