> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 7:48 PM
> To: Srujana Challa <scha...@marvell.com>
> Cc: da...@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> cry...@vger.kernel.org; Suheil Chandran <schand...@marvell.com>;
> Narayana Prasad Raju Athreya <pathr...@marvell.com>; Sunil Kovvuri
> Goutham <sgout...@marvell.com>; Linu Cherian <lcher...@marvell.com>;
> Geethasowjanya Akula <gak...@marvell.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <jer...@marvell.com>; Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] drivers: crypto: add support for
> OCTEONTX2 CPT engine
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:14:34PM +0000, Srujana Challa wrote:
> >
> > Since LMT store is our platform specific, it cannot be generalized to all
> ARM64.
>
> I'm not asking you to generalise it to all of ARM64. I'm asking you to move
> this into a header file under arch/arm64 that can then be shared by both your
> crypto driver and your network driver so you don't duplicate this
> everywhere.
>
For ARM64 , except erratas other platform or machine dependent stuff are not
allowed inside arch/arm64.
Also an earlier attempt by us to add few APIs addressing 128bit operations were
not allowed by ARM folks
as they don't work in a generic way and are SOC specific.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.3/02211.html
Thanks,
Sunil.
