Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] crypto: exynos - Improve performance of PRNG

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Dec 13 2017 - 03:08:07 EST


On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Åukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Use memcpy_fromio() instead of custom exynos_rng_copy_random() function
> to retrieve generated numbers from the registers of PRNG.

If I recall correctly, you mentioned before that it improves the
performance. If so it would be nice to mention some numbers here.

Anyway it is fine with me:
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof

>
> Signed-off-by: Åukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c | 31 ++-----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c b/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
> index 825c09619eb8..dcdd444d0b3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
> @@ -131,34 +131,6 @@ static int exynos_rng_set_seed(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng,
> }
>
> /*
> - * Read from output registers and put the data under 'dst' array,
> - * up to dlen bytes.
> - *
> - * Returns number of bytes actually stored in 'dst' (dlen
> - * or EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE).
> - */
> -static unsigned int exynos_rng_copy_random(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng,
> - u8 *dst, unsigned int dlen)
> -{
> - unsigned int cnt = 0;
> - int i, j;
> - u32 val;
> -
> - for (j = 0; j < EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_REGS; j++) {
> - val = exynos_rng_readl(rng, EXYNOS_RNG_OUT(j));
> -
> - for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> - dst[cnt] = val & 0xff;
> - val >>= 8;
> - if (++cnt >= dlen)
> - return cnt;
> - }
> - }
> -
> - return cnt;
> -}
> -
> -/*
> * Start the engine and poll for finish. Then read from output registers
> * filling the 'dst' buffer up to 'dlen' bytes or up to size of generated
> * random data (EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE).
> @@ -190,7 +162,8 @@ static int exynos_rng_get_random(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng,
> /* Clear status bit */
> exynos_rng_writel(rng, EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS_RNG_DONE,
> EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS);
> - *read = exynos_rng_copy_random(rng, dst, dlen);
> + *read = min_t(size_t, dlen, EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE);
> + memcpy_fromio(dst, rng->mem + EXYNOS_RNG_OUT_BASE, *read);
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.11.0
>