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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:48 am    Post subject: AES-NI instructions are not detected Reply with quote

Hello!

I have a mobile i5-520um processor with AES-NI support ([url]http://ark.intel.com/products/47554/Intel-Core-i5-520UM-Processor-(3M-Cache-1_06-GHz)[/url])
But the output of "dmesg | grep AES" is "Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected."
I am using a custom compile of the 2.6.38-r1 tuxonice-sources.

Does anyone have a clue why the detection fails and how I can make the kernel detect/use the feature correctly? I would really like to speed up my disk encryption and the processor seems to be the bottleneck.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it work in a newer kernel? Your current kernel is quite old and no longer receives security or correctness patches.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thnx,

I haven't tried it with a newer kernel yet. (The latest available is 3.0.17-r1)

Until quite recently 2.6.38 was the latest stable kernel for tuxonice-sources. And the 3+ sources seemed to crash X a lot on my machine and also consume a lot more power from the battery. (both gentoo-sources and tuxonice-sources)

I was hoping that someone could tell me if a newer kernel would solve the problem.
I will try the 3.0 version to make sure it makes a difference.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

leipie wrote:
Thnx,

I haven't tried it with a newer kernel yet. (The latest available is 3.0.17-r1)

Until quite recently 2.6.38 was the latest stable kernel for tuxonice-sources. And the 3+ sources seemed to crash X a lot on my machine and also consume a lot more power from the battery. (both gentoo-sources and tuxonice-sources)

I was hoping that someone could tell me if a newer kernel would solve the problem.
I will try the 3.0 version to make sure it makes a difference.

Cheers,

leipie


3.4 solved the regression power, as for X, are you sure it is the driver and not something else?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The 3.0.15-tuxonice-r1 kernel, also doesn't detect it correctly
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey!

Same result with 3.2.12-gentoo kernel.

Does anyone know if the statement is correct? If so how I can force the kernel to use/detect the AES-NI functionality?

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you paste the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo"?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

4x

processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 37
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU U 520 @ 1.07GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1067.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 5
initial apicid : 5
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida arat dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips : 2831.89
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I checked with intel's support and they say my cpu should really support the "AES New Instructions"
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you're missing the "aes" flag. Either BIOS explicitly disabled it or the CPU does indeed not support aesni at all.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm,

I think I'm going to bug Asus now :P
Thnx for your help.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello again,

Asus support informed me that the processor in my laptop does indeed support the instruction, but the BIOS of my laptop does not. They also informed I had to wait for a BIOS update, but they have no intention/priority to fix this in the near future :s

Does anyone know a way around this?

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