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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:56:45 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR on ARM (NEON)
On 2015-08-03 11:34, Lei Zhang wrote:
>> On Aug 3, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
>> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 04:39:38AM +0200, magnum wrote:
>>> How slow is NEON with unaligned scalar 32-bit? The raw formats'
>>> set_key() read the key (which may be unaligned) using 32-bit
>>> loads and places directly in the SIMD buffer. It might be a
>>> coincidence that MD4/MD5 happens to get aligned test vector keys
>>> and the others doesn't. Other than that I can't see what would be
>>> unaligned.
>>
>> I think we must not have any unaligned accesses on ARM at all. If
>> we currently do have any, let's fix that as a bug.
>>
>> While not completely unsupported, they are tricky:
>>
>> "How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?"
>> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html
>>
>>http://www.heyrick.co.uk/armwiki/Unaligned_data_access
>
> I'm not very clear. Are you talking about unaligned vector
> load/stores or unaligned scalar load/stores?
I think virtually all vector stuff is aligned. But a SIMD build
"enables" the "32-bit set_key" I described, which uses unaligned scalar
load from 'key' (and aligned 32-bit scalar store in the SIMD buffer). So
it's unaligned scalar, but happens only in SIMD builds.
> The links you posted discussed scalar load/stores. As we are not
> writing ARM assemblies in JtR, the compiler should be able to take
> care of scalar variables' alignment for us.
That may be why it doesn't crash but gets slow. The compiler may produce
inefficient code for this and this function's speed has a huge impact on
the fastest formats. The functions were written/tweaked with close
monitoring of Valgrind.
magnum
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