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README - ocf-linux-20100530
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This README provides instructions for getting ocf-linux compiled and
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operating in a generic linux environment. Other information on the project
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can be found at the home page:
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http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/
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Embedded systems and applications requiring userspace acceleration will need
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to patch the kernel source to get full OCF support. See "Adding OCF to
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linux source" below. Otherwise the "OCF Quickstart" that follows is the
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easiest way to get started.
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If your goal is to accelerate Openswan on Ubuntu or CentOS, you may find
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that the required binaries are already available on openswan.org:
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ftp://ftp.openswan.org/ocf/
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ftp://ftp.openswan.org/openswan/binaries/ubuntu/
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OCF Quickstart for Ubuntu/Others (including Openswan)
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This section provides instructions on how to quickly add kernel only support
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for OCF to a GNU/Linux system. It is only suitable for in-kernel use such as
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Openswan MAST/KLIPS.
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If the target is an embedded system, or, userspace acceleration of
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applications such as OpenVPN and OpenSSL, the section below titled
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"Adding OCF to linux source" is more appropriate.
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Before building kernel only support for OCF ensure that the appropriate
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linux-headers package is installed:
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cd ocf
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make ocf_modules
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sudo make ocf_install
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OCF_DIR=`pwd` # remember where OCF sources were built
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At this point the ocf, cryptosoft, ocfnull, hifn7751 and ocf-bench modules
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should have been built and installed. The OCF installation can be tested
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with the following commands:
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modprobe ocf
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modprobe cryptosoft
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modprobe ocf-bench
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dmesg | tail -5
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The final modprobe of ocf-bench will fail, this is intentional as ocf-bench
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is a short lived module that tests in-kernel performance of OCF. If
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everything worked correctly the "dmesg | tail -5" should include a line
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like:
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[ 583.128741] OCF: 45133 requests of 1488 bytes in 251 jiffies (535.122 Mbps)
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This shows the in-kernel performance of OCF using the cryptosoft driver.
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For addition driver load options, see "How to load the OCF modules" below.
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If the intention is to run an OCF accelerated Openswan (KLIPS/MAST) then use
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these steps to compile openswan downloaded from openswan.org (2.6.34 or later).
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tar xf openswan-2.6.34.tar.gz
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cd openswan-2.6.34
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make programs
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make KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build \
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KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS=$OCF_DIR/Module.symvers \
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MODULE_DEF_INCLUDE=`pwd`/packaging/ocf/config-all.hmodules \
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MODULE_DEFCONFIG=`pwd`/packaging/ocf/defconfig \
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module
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sudo make KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build \
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KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS=$OCF_DIR/Module.symvers \
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MODULE_DEF_INCLUDE=`pwd`/packaging/ocf/config-all.hmodules \
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MODULE_DEFCONFIG=`pwd`/packaging/ocf/defconfig \
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install minstall
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The rest of this document is only required for more complex build
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requirements.
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Adding OCF to linux source
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##########################
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It is recommended that OCF be built as modules as it increases the
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flexibility and ease of debugging the system.
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Ensure that the system has /dev/crypto for userspace access to OCF:
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mknod /dev/crypto c 10 70
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Generate the kernel patches and apply the appropriate one.
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cd ocf
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make patch
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This will provide three files:
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linux-2.4.*-ocf.patch
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linux-2.6.*-ocf.patch
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ocf-linux-base.patch
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If either of the first two patches applies to the targets kernel, then one
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of the following as required:
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cd linux-2.X.Y; patch -p1 < linux-2.4.*-ocf.patch
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cd linux-2.6.Y; patch -p1 < linux-2.6.*-ocf.patch
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Otherwise, locate the appropriate kernel patch in the patches directory and
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apply that as well as the ocf-linux-base.patch using '-p1'.
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When using a linux-2.4 system on a non-x86 platform, the following may be
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required to build cryptosoft:
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cp linux-2.X.x/include/asm-i386/kmap_types.h linux-2.X.x/include/asm-YYY
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When using cryptosoft, for simplicity, enable all the crypto support in the
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kernel except for the test driver. Likewise for the OCF options. Do not
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enable OCF crypto drivers for HW that is not present (for example the ixp4xx
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driver will not compile on non-Xscale systems).
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Make sure that cryptodev.h from the ocf directory is installed as
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crypto/cryptodev.h in an include directory that is used for building
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applications for the target platform. For example on a host system that
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might be:
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/usr/include/crypto/cryptodev.h
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Patch the openssl-0.9.8r code the openssl-0.9.8r.patch from the patches
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directory. There are many older patch versions in the patches directory
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if required.
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The openssl patches provide the following functionality:
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* enables --with-cryptodev for non BSD systems
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* adds -cpu option to openssl speed for calculating CPU load under linux
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* fixes null pointer in openssl speed multi thread output.
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* fixes test keys to work with linux crypto's more stringent key checking.
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* adds MD5/SHA acceleration (Ronen Shitrit), only enabled with the
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--with-cryptodev-digests option
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* fixes bug in engine code caching.
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Build the crypto-tools directory for the target to obtain a userspace
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testing tool call cryptotest.
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How to load the OCF modules
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First insert the base modules (cryptodev is optional, it is only used
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for userspace acceleration):
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modprobe ocf
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modprobe cryptodev
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Load the software OCF driver with:
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modprobe cryptosoft
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and zero or more of the OCF HW drivers with:
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modprobe safe
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modprobe hifn7751
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modprobe ixp4xx
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...
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All the drivers take a debug option to enable verbose debug so that
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OCF operation may be observed via "dmesg" or the console. For debug
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load the modules as:
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modprobe ocf crypto_debug=1
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modprobe cryptodev cryptodev_debug=1
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modprobe cryptosoft swcr_debug=1
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More than one OCF crypto driver may be loaded but then there is no
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guarantee as to which will be used (other than a preference for HW
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drivers over SW drivers by most applications).
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It is also possible to enable debug at run time on linux-2.6 systems
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with the following:
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echo 1 > /sys/module/ocf/parameters/crypto_debug
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echo 1 > /sys/module/cryptodev/parameters/cryptodev_debug
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echo 1 > /sys/module/cryptosoft/parameters/swcr_debug
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echo 1 > /sys/module/hifn7751/parameters/hifn_debug
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echo 1 > /sys/module/safe/parameters/safe_debug
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echo 1 > /sys/module/ixp4xx/parameters/ixp_debug
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...
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The ocf-bench driver accepts the following parameters:
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request_q_len - Maximum number of outstanding requests to OCF
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request_num - run for at least this many requests
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request_size - size of each request (multiple of 16 bytes recommended)
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request_batch - enable OCF request batching
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request_cbimm - enable OCF immediate callback on completion
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For example:
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modprobe ocf-bench request_size=1024 request_cbimm=0
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#######################
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Testing the OCF support
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run "cryptotest", it should do a short test for a couple of
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des packets. If it does everything is working.
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If this works, then ssh will use the driver when invoked as:
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ssh -c 3des username@host
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to see for sure that it is operating, enable debug as defined above.
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To get a better idea of performance run:
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cryptotest 100 4096
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There are more options to cryptotest, see the help.
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It is also possible to use openssl to test the speed of the crypto
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drivers.
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openssl speed -evp des -engine cryptodev -elapsed
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openssl speed -evp des3 -engine cryptodev -elapsed
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openssl speed -evp aes128 -engine cryptodev -elapsed
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and multiple threads (10) with:
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openssl speed -evp des -engine cryptodev -elapsed -multi 10
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openssl speed -evp des3 -engine cryptodev -elapsed -multi 10
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openssl speed -evp aes128 -engine cryptodev -elapsed -multi 10
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for public key testing you can try:
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cryptokeytest
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openssl speed -engine cryptodev rsa -elapsed
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openssl speed -engine cryptodev dsa -elapsed
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#############################
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#
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# David McCullough
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# david_mccullough@mcafee.com
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#
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