The driver crc32c-intel match CPUs supporting X86_FEATURE_XMM4_2. On platforms with Zhaoxin CPUs supporting this X86 feature, when crc32c-intel and crc32c-generic are both registered, system will use crc32c-intel because its .cra_priority is greater than crc32c-generic. When doing lmbench3 Create and Delete file test on partitions with ext4 enabling metadata checksum, found using crc32c-generic driver could get about 20% performance gain than using the driver crc32c-intel on some Zhaoxin CPUs. This case expect to use crc32c-generic driver for these Zhaoxin CPUs to get performance gain, so remove these Zhaoxin CPUs support from crc32c-intel. This patch was submitted to mainline kernel but not accepted by upstream maintainer whose reason is "Then create a BUG flag for it,". We think this is not a CPU bug for Zhaoxin CPUs. So should patch the crc32c driver for Zhaoxin CPUs but not report a BUG. https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/11/308 Signed-off-by: LeoLiu-oc &lt;LeoLiu-oc(a)zhaoxin.com&gt; --- arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel_glue.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel_glue.c index 5773e1161072..d994bd49761a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel_glue.c +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel_glue.c @@ -242,8 +242,13 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(x86cpu, crc32c_cpu_id); static int __init crc32c_intel_mod_init(void) { + struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data; if (!x86_match_cpu(crc32c_cpu_id)) return -ENODEV; + if ((c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_ZHAOXIN || c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR) && + (c->x86 <= 7 && c->x86_model <= 59)) { + return -ENODEV; + } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCLMULQDQ)) { alg.update = crc32c_pcl_intel_update; -- 2.20.1