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Eric Biggers
2e8f7b170a lib/crypto: blake2b: Roll up BLAKE2b round loop on 32-bit
BLAKE2b has a state of 16 64-bit words.  Add the message data in and
there are 32 64-bit words.  With the current code where all the rounds
are unrolled to enable constant-folding of the blake2b_sigma values,
this results in a very large code size on 32-bit kernels, including a
recurring issue where gcc uses a large amount of stack.

There's just not much benefit to this unrolling when the code is already
so large.  Let's roll up the rounds when !CONFIG_64BIT.

To avoid having to duplicate the code, just write the code once using a
loop, and conditionally use 'unrolled_full' from <linux/unroll.h>.

Then, fold the now-unneeded ROUND() macro into the loop.  Finally, also
remove the now-unneeded override of the stack frame size warning.

Code size improvements for blake2b_compress_generic():

                  Size before (bytes)    Size after (bytes)
                  -------------------    ------------------
    i386, gcc           27584                 3632
    i386, clang         18208                 3248
    arm32, gcc          19912                 2860
    arm32, clang        21336                 3344

Running the BLAKE2b benchmark on a !CONFIG_64BIT kernel on an x86_64
processor shows a 16384B throughput change of 351 => 340 MB/s (gcc) or
442 MB/s => 375 MB/s (clang).  So clearly not much of a slowdown either.
But also that microbenchmark also effectively disregards cache usage,
which is important in practice and is far better in the smaller code.

Note: If we rolled up the loop on x86_64 too, the change would be
7024 bytes => 1584 bytes and 1960 MB/s => 1396 MB/s (gcc), or
6848 bytes => 1696 bytes and 1920 MB/s => 1263 MB/s (clang).
Maybe still worth it, though not quite as clearly beneficial.

Fixes: 91d689337f ("crypto: blake2b - add blake2b generic implementation")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251205050330.89704-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
2025-12-09 15:10:21 -08:00
Eric Biggers
23a16c9533 lib/crypto: blake2b: Add BLAKE2b library functions
Add a library API for BLAKE2b, closely modeled after the BLAKE2s API.

This will allow in-kernel users such as btrfs to use BLAKE2b without
going through the generic crypto layer.  In addition, as usual the
BLAKE2b crypto_shash algorithms will be reimplemented on top of this.

Note: to create lib/crypto/blake2b.c I made a copy of
lib/crypto/blake2s.c and made the updates from BLAKE2s => BLAKE2b.  This
way, the BLAKE2s and BLAKE2b code is kept consistent.  Therefore, it
borrows the SPDX-License-Identifier and Copyright from
lib/crypto/blake2s.c rather than crypto/blake2b_generic.c.

The library API uses 'struct blake2b_ctx', consistent with other
lib/crypto/ APIs.  The existing 'struct blake2b_state' will be removed
once the blake2b crypto_shash algorithms are updated to stop using it.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251018043106.375964-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 22:04:24 -07:00