On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 at 06:14, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Stop wrapping skcipher and aead algorithms with the crypto simd helper > > (crypto/simd.c). The only purpose of doing so was to work around x86 > > not always supporting kernel-mode FPU in softirqs. Specifically, if a > > hardirq interrupted a task context kernel-mode FPU section and then a > > softirqs were run at the end of that hardirq, those softirqs could not > > use kernel-mode FPU. This has now been fixed. In combination with the > > fact that the skcipher and aead APIs only support task and softirq > > contexts, these can now just use kernel-mode FPU unconditionally on x86. > > Nice work! > Yeah good riddance. > So which platform still needs the simd wrapper? I believe arm/arm64 > have both been fixed but we haven't finished removing the legacy > simd code yet? Ard, would you be able to spare some cycles and > finish the removal of simd on arm? > Removal of what, exactly?
