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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2024-08-27 11:50:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2024-09-06 14:50:45 +0800 |
| commit | c299d7af9dfb9b7abfc23cb87287c4f54ade92ac (patch) | |
| tree | 7df69138c62ab9216568e8f0aacb9821e4dae361 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 78cb66caa6ab5385ac2090f1aae5f3c19e08f522 (diff) | |
crypto: x86/aesni - update docs for aesni-intel module
Update the kconfig help and module description to reflect that VAES
instructions are now used in some cases. Also fix XTR => XCTR.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig b/arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig index 24875e6295f2..7b1bebed879d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ config CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 - ADX (large integer arithmetic) config CRYPTO_AES_NI_INTEL - tristate "Ciphers: AES, modes: ECB, CBC, CTS, CTR, XTR, XTS, GCM (AES-NI)" + tristate "Ciphers: AES, modes: ECB, CBC, CTS, CTR, XCTR, XTS, GCM (AES-NI/VAES)" depends on X86 select CRYPTO_AEAD select CRYPTO_LIB_AES @@ -25,10 +25,14 @@ config CRYPTO_AES_NI_INTEL help Block cipher: AES cipher algorithms AEAD cipher: AES with GCM - Length-preserving ciphers: AES with ECB, CBC, CTS, CTR, XTR, XTS + Length-preserving ciphers: AES with ECB, CBC, CTS, CTR, XCTR, XTS Architecture: x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) using: - AES-NI (AES new instructions) + - VAES (Vector AES) + + Some algorithm implementations are supported only in 64-bit builds, + and some have additional prerequisites such as AVX2 or AVX512. config CRYPTO_BLOWFISH_X86_64 tristate "Ciphers: Blowfish, modes: ECB, CBC" diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c index d63ba9eaba3e..b0dd83555499 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c @@ -1750,6 +1750,6 @@ static void __exit aesni_exit(void) late_initcall(aesni_init); module_exit(aesni_exit); -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Rijndael (AES) Cipher Algorithm, Intel AES-NI instructions optimized"); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AES cipher and modes, optimized with AES-NI or VAES instructions"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("aes"); |