[PATCH] Use Intel AES instruction set if it exists - v4

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 07.09.2017 um 01:55 schrieb Jeremy Allison:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 01:49:22AM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
>> Am 06.09.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Jeremy Allison:
>>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:52:58PM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
>>>>> Am 06.09.2017 um 18:15 schrieb Jeremy Allison:
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:38:20PM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Jeremy,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> can you please check the indentation in various wscript files,
>>>>>>> they're python scripts and should not use tabs, 4 spaces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also running "git show eb1f476657c" in a recent kernel checkout,
>>>>>>> gives a failure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's a Samba hash, not a kernel one.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, that's the hash of the file content and I'd assume that doesn't
>>>>> change if we just copy the file.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, got it. We do need to change it to compile as a -fPIC library
>>>> for Samba.
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> I've now got a patchset that starts from a pristine kernel
>>>> check-in with a known git refspec and shows what is modified
>>>> from there.
>>>>
>>>> Testing now.
>>>
>>> Here it is. Please review. I'm hoping v4 will be the last one,
>>> fingers crossed !
>>
>> What's the reason to take such an old version?
> 
> The modifications to move data to read-only sections and
> other changes made it impossible for me to make this into
> a Samba shared library. The version I took was the latest
> one that contained all the code we use that is easy to
> make a shared library (check out the small patch to the
> pristine source code that follows the initial check-in).
> 
>> There were some fixes in the patchset up to
>> cce2ea8d90fec72ed954830e73f5d4995cc79193 (crypto: aesni - add generic
>> gcm(aes))
> 
> We're not currently using those. I think we should get
> that when we do the migration to GNUtls.

Ok, reviewed-by-me then.

Thanks!
metze


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