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| author | Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2009-01-18 16:28:34 +1100 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2009-02-18 16:48:06 +0800 |
| commit | 54b6a1bd5364aca95cd6ffae00f2b64c6511122c (patch) | |
| tree | b1e288b009df7fefa92ce001d8709b04dd20663f /arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | |
| parent | 1cac2cbc76b9f3fce0d4ccc374e724e7f2533a47 (diff) | |
crypto: aes-ni - Add support to Intel AES-NI instructions for x86_64 platform
Intel AES-NI is a new set of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
instructions that are going to be introduced in the next generation of
Intel processor, as of 2009. These instructions enable fast and secure
data encryption and decryption, using the Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES), defined by FIPS Publication number 197. The architecture
introduces six instructions that offer full hardware support for
AES. Four of them support high performance data encryption and
decryption, and the other two instructions support the AES key
expansion procedure.
The white paper can be downloaded from:
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/downloads/intelavx/AES-Instructions-Set_WP.pdf
AES may be used in soft_irq context, but MMX/SSE context can not be
touched safely in soft_irq context. So in_interrupt() is checked, if
in IRQ or soft_irq context, the general x86_64 implementation are used
instead.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index 7301e60dc4a8..0beba0d1468d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern const char * const x86_power_flags[32]; #define cpu_has_xmm boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XMM) #define cpu_has_xmm2 boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XMM2) #define cpu_has_xmm3 boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XMM3) +#define cpu_has_aes boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AES) #define cpu_has_ht boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HT) #define cpu_has_mp boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MP) #define cpu_has_nx boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX) |