Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: add kconfig symbols for assembler VAES and VPCLMULQDQ support

[Eric Biggers]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 09:10:13AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Add config symbols AS_VAES and AS_VPCLMULQDQ that expose whether the
> > assembler supports the vector AES and carryless multiplication
> > cryptographic extensions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
> > index 8ad41da301e5..59aedf32c4ea 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
> > @@ -23,9 +23,19 @@ config AS_TPAUSE
> >  config AS_GFNI
> >  	def_bool $(as-instr,vgf2p8mulb %xmm0$(comma)%xmm1$(comma)%xmm2)
> >  	help
> >  	  Supported by binutils >= 2.30 and LLVM integrated assembler
> >  
> > +config AS_VAES
> > +	def_bool $(as-instr,vaesenc %ymm0$(comma)%ymm1$(comma)%ymm2)
> > +	help
> > +	  Supported by binutils >= 2.30 and LLVM integrated assembler
> 
> Nit: any reason it isn't called AS_VAESENC, like the instruction itself?
> 
> The other new AS_ Kconfig symbols follow the same nomenclature:

The CPU feature flag is called VAES.  It guards the vaesenc, vaesenclast,
vaesdec, and vaesdeclast instructions when used on ymm and zmm registers.

So the name AS_VAES seems fine as-is.

I think you may have been confused by AS_VPCLMULQDQ, because in that case the
feature happens to provides a single instruction with the same name as the CPU
feature flag.

- Eric