[PATCH] config/arm: support crypto in cortex-a78ae mcpu

Shani Peretz shperetz at nvidia.com
Tue Aug 5 08:22:33 CEST 2025


ARM cortex-a78ae configuration (part number 0xd42) is being built
without the necessary crypto extensions. This results in infinite
loops in the crypto performance tests applications because the
hardware crypto features are not properly enabled.
This fix enables the crypto extension in the mcpu definition.

Fixes: c02c01dbf907 ("config/arm: prefer strict use of -mcpu if supported")
Cc: wathsala.vithanage at arm.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
---
 config/arm/meson.build | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/arm/meson.build b/config/arm/meson.build
index 35b7553e74..82661b7cfe 100644
--- a/config/arm/meson.build
+++ b/config/arm/meson.build
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ part_number_config_arm = {
         ]
     },
     '0xd42': {
-        'march': 'armv8.4-a',
-        'mcpu' : 'cortex-a78ae',
+        'mcpu' : 'mcpu_cortex-a78ae',
         'flags': [
             ['RTE_MAX_LCORE', 16],
             ['RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES', 1]
@@ -689,6 +688,10 @@ mcpu_defs = {
         'march': 'armv8-a',
         'march_extensions': ['simd'],
     },
+    'mcpu_cortex-a78ae': {
+        'march': 'armv8.4-a',
+        'march_extensions': ['crypto']
+    }
 }
 
 '''
-- 
2.34.1



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