(Thanks to Sam Panzer for the patch.)
At least some linkers will drop constructor functions if no symbols from
that translation unit are used elsewhere in the program. On POWER, since
the cached capability value isn't a global in crypto.o (like other
platforms), the constructor function is getting discarded.
The C++11 spec says (3.6.2, paragraph 4):
It is implementation-defined whether the dynamic initialization of a
non-local variable with static storage duration is done before the
first statement of main. If the initialization is deferred to some
point in time after the first statement of main, it shall occur
before the first odr-use (3.2) of any function or variable defined
in the same translation unit as the variable to be initialized.
Compilers appear to interpret that to mean they are allowed to drop
(i.e. indefinitely defer) constructors that occur in translation units
that are never used, so they can avoid initializing some part of a
library if it's dropped on the floor.
This change makes the hardware capability value for POWER a global in
crypto.c, which should prevent the constructor function from being
ignored.
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This change adds AES and GHASH assembly from upstream, with the aim of
speeding up AES-GCM.
The PPC64LE assembly matches the interface of the ARMv8 assembly so I've
changed the prefix of both sets of asm functions to be the same
("aes_hw_").
Otherwise, the new assmebly files and Perlasm match exactly those from
upstream's c536b6be1a (from their master branch).
Before:
Did 1879000 AES-128-GCM (16 bytes) seal operations in 1000428us (1878196.1 ops/sec): 30.1 MB/s
Did 61000 AES-128-GCM (1350 bytes) seal operations in 1006660us (60596.4 ops/sec): 81.8 MB/s
Did 11000 AES-128-GCM (8192 bytes) seal operations in 1072649us (10255.0 ops/sec): 84.0 MB/s
Did 1665000 AES-256-GCM (16 bytes) seal operations in 1000591us (1664016.6 ops/sec): 26.6 MB/s
Did 52000 AES-256-GCM (1350 bytes) seal operations in 1006971us (51640.0 ops/sec): 69.7 MB/s
Did 8840 AES-256-GCM (8192 bytes) seal operations in 1013294us (8724.0 ops/sec): 71.5 MB/s
After:
Did 4994000 AES-128-GCM (16 bytes) seal operations in 1000017us (4993915.1 ops/sec): 79.9 MB/s
Did 1389000 AES-128-GCM (1350 bytes) seal operations in 1000073us (1388898.6 ops/sec): 1875.0 MB/s
Did 319000 AES-128-GCM (8192 bytes) seal operations in 1000101us (318967.8 ops/sec): 2613.0 MB/s
Did 4668000 AES-256-GCM (16 bytes) seal operations in 1000149us (4667304.6 ops/sec): 74.7 MB/s
Did 1202000 AES-256-GCM (1350 bytes) seal operations in 1000646us (1201224.0 ops/sec): 1621.7 MB/s
Did 269000 AES-256-GCM (8192 bytes) seal operations in 1002804us (268247.8 ops/sec): 2197.5 MB/s
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