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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 9dc523aa0e Makefile + hash.h: remove PPC_SHA1 implementation Remove the PPC_SHA1 implementation added in `a6ef3518f9` ([PATCH] PPC assembly implementation of SHA1, 2005-04-22). When this was added Apple consumer hardware used the PPC architecture, and the implementation was intended to improve SHA-1 speed there. Since it was added we've moved to using sha1collisiondetection by default, and anyone wanting hard-rolled non-DC SHA-1 implementation can use OpenSSL's via the OPENSSL_SHA1 knob. The PPC_SHA1 originally originally targeted 32 bit PPC, and later the 64 bit PPC 970 (a.k.a. Apple PowerPC G5). See `926172c5e4` (block-sha1: improve code on large-register-set machines, 2009-08-10) for a reference about the performance on G5 (a comment in block-sha1/sha1.c being removed here). I can't get it to do anything but segfault on both the BE and LE POWER machines in the GCC compile farm[1]. Anyone who's concerned about performance on PPC these days is likely to be using the IBM POWER processors. There have been proposals to entirely remove non-sha1collisiondetection implementations from the tree[2]. I think per [3] that would be a bit overzealous. I.e. there are various set-ups git's speed is going to be more important than the relatively implausible SHA-1 collision attack, or where such attacks are entirely mitigated by other means (e.g. by incoming objects being checked with DC_SHA1). But that really doesn't apply to PPC_SHA1 in particular, which seems to have outlived its usefulness. As this gets rid of the only in-tree .S assembly file we can remove the small bits of logic from the Makefile needed to build objects from .S (as opposed to .c) The code being removed here was also throwing warnings with the "-pedantic" flag, it could have been fixed as `544d93bc3b` (block-sha1: remove use of obsolete x86 assembly, 2022-03-10) did for block-sha1/, but as noted above let's remove it instead. 1. https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ Tested on gcc{110,112,135,203}, a mixture of POWER [789] ppc64 and ppc64le. All segfault in anything needing object hashing (e.g. t/t1007-hash-object.sh) when compiled with PPC_SHA1=Y. 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200223223758.120941-1-mh@glandium.org/ 3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200224044732.GK1018190@coredump.intra.peff.net/ Acked-by: brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	2 years ago
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 9dc523aa0e Makefile + hash.h: remove PPC_SHA1 implementation

Remove the PPC_SHA1 implementation added in a6ef3518f9 ([PATCH] PPC
assembly implementation of SHA1, 2005-04-22). When this was added
Apple consumer hardware used the PPC architecture, and the
implementation was intended to improve SHA-1 speed there.

Since it was added we've moved to using sha1collisiondetection by
default, and anyone wanting hard-rolled non-DC SHA-1 implementation
can use OpenSSL's via the OPENSSL_SHA1 knob.

The PPC_SHA1 originally originally targeted 32 bit PPC, and later the
64 bit PPC 970 (a.k.a. Apple PowerPC G5). See 926172c5e4 (block-sha1:
improve code on large-register-set machines, 2009-08-10) for a
reference about the performance on G5 (a comment in block-sha1/sha1.c
being removed here).

I can't get it to do anything but segfault on both the BE and LE POWER
machines in the GCC compile farm[1]. Anyone who's concerned about
performance on PPC these days is likely to be using the IBM POWER
processors.

There have been proposals to entirely remove non-sha1collisiondetection
implementations from the tree[2]. I think per [3] that would be a bit
overzealous. I.e. there are various set-ups git's speed is going to be
more important than the relatively implausible SHA-1 collision attack,
or where such attacks are entirely mitigated by other means (e.g. by
incoming objects being checked with DC_SHA1).

But that really doesn't apply to PPC_SHA1 in particular, which seems
to have outlived its usefulness.

As this gets rid of the only in-tree *.S assembly file we can remove
the small bits of logic from the Makefile needed to build objects
from *.S (as opposed to *.c)

The code being removed here was also throwing warnings with the
"-pedantic" flag, it could have been fixed as 544d93bc3b (block-sha1:
remove use of obsolete x86 assembly, 2022-03-10) did for block-sha1/*,
but as noted above let's remove it instead.

1. https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
   Tested on gcc{110,112,135,203}, a mixture of POWER [789] ppc64 and
   ppc64le. All segfault in anything needing object
   hashing (e.g. t/t1007-hash-object.sh) when compiled with
   PPC_SHA1=Y.
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200223223758.120941-1-mh@glandium.org/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200224044732.GK1018190@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Acked-by: brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 years ago

sha1.c Makefile + hash.h: remove PPC_SHA1 implementation 2 years ago

sha1.h

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