lib/sha1: use the git implementation of SHA-1
For ChromiumOS, we use SHA-1 to verify the integrity of the root filesystem. The speed of the kernel sha-1 implementation has a major impact on our boot performance. To improve boot performance, we investigated using the heavily optimized sha-1 implementation used in git. With the git sha-1 implementation, we see a 11.7% improvement in boot time. 10 reboots, remove slowest/fastest. Before: Mean: 6.58 seconds Stdev: 0.14 After (with git sha-1, this patch): Mean: 5.89 seconds Stdev: 0.07 The other cool thing about the git SHA-1 implementation is that it only needs 64 bytes of stack for the workspace while the original kernel implementation needed 320 bytes. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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