Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Removes the x86 dependency on the QAT drivers

[Yoan Picchi]

>> From: Yoan Picchi <yoan.picchi@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> The QAT acceleration card can be very helpfull for some tasks like
>> dealing with IPSEC but it is currently restricted to be used only on 
x86 machine.
>> Looking at the code we didn't see any reasons why those drivers might
>> not work on other architectures. We've successfully built all of them
>> on x86, arm64, arm32, mips64, powerpc64, riscv64 and sparc64.
>>
>> We also have tested the driver with an Intel Corporation C62x Chipset
>> QuickAssist Technology (rev 04) PCIe card on an arm64 server. After
>> the numa patch, it works with the AF_ALG crypto userland interface,
>> allowing us to encrypt some data with cbc for instance. We've also
>> successfully created some VF, bound them to DPDK, and used the card
>> this way, thus showing some real life usecases of x86 do work on 
arm64 too.
>>
>> Please let us know if we missed something that would warrants some
>> further testing.
>Thanks Yoan.
>
>Can you please confirm that you tested the driver on the platform you 
reported using a kernel with CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS not set 
and CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y and the self test >is passing?
>You can check it by running
>    $ cat /proc/crypto | grep -B 4 passed | grep -e "qat_\|qat-" | 
sort This should report:
>    driver       : qat_aes_cbc
>    driver       : qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha1
>    driver       : qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha256
>    driver       : qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha512
>    driver       : qat_aes_ctr
>    driver       : qat_aes_xts
>    driver       : qat-dh
>    driver       : qat-rsa
>
>Note that if you are using the HEAD of cryptodev-2.6 you will have to 
either revert 8893d27ffcaf6ec6267038a177cb87bcde4dd3de or apply
>https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-crypto/list/?series=639755 
as the algorithms have been temporarily disabled.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Giovanni

Hi Giovanni.

Thanks for the instructions, I did not know of this test.
I rebuilt my kernel on arm64 with those parameter and I confirm I get 
the same output with
$ cat /proc/crypto | grep -B 4 passed | grep -e "qat_\|qat-" | sort

Kindly,
Yoan