Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API -V3.

["Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Austin Zhang
<austin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +#define REX_PRE "0x48, "
> +#define SCALE_F 8
> +#else
> +#define REX_PRE
> +#define SCALE_F 4
> +#endif
[...]
> +static u32 __pure crc32c_intel_le_hw(u32 crc, unsigned char const *p, size_t len)
> +{
> +       unsigned int iquotient = len / SCALE_F;
> +       unsigned int iremainder = len % SCALE_F;
> +       unsigned long *ptmp = (unsigned long *)p;
> +
> +       while (iquotient--) {
> +               __asm__ __volatile__(
> +                       ".byte 0xf2, " REX_PRE "0xf, 0x38, 0xf1, 0xf1;"
> +                       :"=S"(crc)
> +                       :"0"(crc), "c"(*ptmp)
> +               );
> +               ptmp++;

I think you want to use

  #define SCALE_F sizeof(unsigned long)

Since the loop iteration count etc depends on

   ptmp++

which depends on the type being unsigned long.