RFR: 8073108: GHASH Intrinsics

[Florian Weimer]

On 02/16/2015 10:11 PM, Anthony Scarpino wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm requesting a code review to intrinsify the GHASH operations for both
> x86 and SPARC platforms.  This greatly increases performance over
> software for AES/GCM crypto operations, details are in the bug.
> 
> The review is for two repos, hotspot and jdk:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ascarpino/8073108/hotspot/webrev/

Sorry for double-posting.

I looked at generate_ghash_processBlocks() and wonder if the loop needs
to be split to introduce occasional safepoints.  The TLS record size
should limit the number bytes per invocation to 16000, so perhaps this
isn't issue for the current application.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security