* [PATCH v2] lib/crc: arm64: use .arch_extension to enable CRC and crypto
@ 2026-11-11 14:25 Emanuele Rocca
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From: Emanuele Rocca @ 2026-11-11 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Biggers; +Cc: Ard Biesheuvel, linux-crypto, linux-kernel
Use .arch_extension instead of .arch and .cpu in crc32-core.S and
crc-t10dif-core.S.
.arch and .cpu reset the assembler's feature set, dropping extensions
enabled via -march. See commit 9142c2f8f84b ("octeontx2: use
arch_extension to enable LSE"), where this caused an actual build
failure.
That is not a problem here: the instructions these files use are all
covered by the CRC and crypto extensions. Switch anyway for consistency
and to avoid surprises if the files later use instructions outside
generic+crc+crypto.
.arch_extension is supported by binutils since 2.26 and by clang since
8.0.0, both older than the minimum versions currently required to build
the kernel (2.30 and 17.0.1 respectively).
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Rocca <emanuele.rocca@arm.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Update crc-t10dif-core.S in addition to crc32-core.S
- Clarify in commit message that this is not a functional change
Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261105154145.557042-1-emanuele.rocca@arm.com/
---
lib/crc/arm64/crc-t10dif-core.S | 2 +-
lib/crc/arm64/crc32-core.S | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/crc/arm64/crc-t10dif-core.S b/lib/crc/arm64/crc-t10dif-core.S
index 71388466825b..e77af0aecf5e 100644
--- a/lib/crc/arm64/crc-t10dif-core.S
+++ b/lib/crc/arm64/crc-t10dif-core.S
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
#include <asm/assembler.h>
.text
- .arch armv8-a+crypto
+ .arch_extension crypto
init_crc .req w0
buf .req x1
diff --git a/lib/crc/arm64/crc32-core.S b/lib/crc/arm64/crc32-core.S
index 49d02cc485b3..0877d07ed1bf 100644
--- a/lib/crc/arm64/crc32-core.S
+++ b/lib/crc/arm64/crc32-core.S
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <asm/assembler.h>
- .cpu generic+crc+crypto
+ .arch_extension crc
+ .arch_extension crypto
.macro bitle, reg
.endm
--
2.55.0
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