On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 09:18:32AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> As reported by kbuild test robot, the optimized SHA3 C implementation
> compiles to mn10300 code that uses a disproportionate amount of stack
> space, i.e.,
> 
>   crypto/sha3_generic.c: In function 'keccakf':
>   crypto/sha3_generic.c:147:1: warning: the frame size of 1232 bytes is 
> larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> As kindly diagnosed by Arnd, this does not only occur when building for
> the mn10300 architecture (which is what the report was about) but also
> for h8300, and builds for other 32-bit architectures show an increase in
> stack space utilization as well.
> 
> Given that SHA3 operates on 64-bit quantities, and keeps a state matrix
> of 25 64-bit words, it is not surprising that 32-bit architectures with
> few general purpose registers are impacted the most by this, and it is
> therefore reasonable to implement a workaround that distinguishes between
> 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
> 
> Arnd figured out that taking the round calculation out of the loop, and
> inlining it explicitly but only on 64-bit architectures preserves most
> of the performance gain achieved by the rewrite, and also gets rid of
> the excessive use of stack space.
> 
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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