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Title "OPENSSL_ia32cap 3" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
OPENSSL_ia32cap, OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc - the IA-32 processor capabilities vector Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 2 unsigned long *OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc(void); #define OPENSSL_ia32cap ((OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc())[0]) .Ve Header "DESCRIPTION" Value returned by OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc() is address of a variable containing \s-1IA-32\s0 processor capabilities bit vector as it appears in \s-1EDX:ECX\s0 register pair after executing \s-1CPUID\s0 instruction with EAX=1 input value (see Intel Application Note #241618). Naturally it's meaningful on x86 and x86_64 platforms only. The variable is normally set up automatically upon toolkit initialization, but can be manipulated afterwards to modify crypto library behaviour. For the moment of this writing following bits are significant: Item "bit #4 denoting presence of Time-Stamp Counter."

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Item "bit #19 denoting availability of CLFLUSH instruction;" Item "bit #20, reserved by Intel, is used to choose among RC4 code paths;" Item "bit #23 denoting MMX support;" Item "bit #24, FXSR bit, denoting availability of XMM registers;" Item "bit #25 denoting SSE support;" Item "bit #26 denoting SSE2 support;" Item "bit #28 denoting Hyperthreading, which is used to distinguish cores with shared cache;" Item "bit #30, reserved by Intel, denotes specifically Intel CPUs;" Item "bit #33 denoting availability of PCLMULQDQ instruction;" Item "bit #41 denoting SSSE3, Supplemental SSE3, support;" Item "bit #43 denoting AMD XOP support (forced to zero on non-AMD CPUs);" Item "bit #57 denoting AES-NI instruction set extension;" Item "bit #59, OSXSAVE bit, denoting availability of YMM registers;" Item "bit #60 denoting AVX extension;" Item "bit #62 denoting availability of RDRAND instruction;"

For example, clearing bit #26 at run-time disables high-performance \s-1SSE2\s0 code present in the crypto library, while clearing bit #24 disables \s-1SSE2\s0 code operating on 128-bit \s-1XMM\s0 register bank. You might have to do the latter if target OpenSSL application is executed on \s-1SSE2\s0 capable \s-1CPU,\s0 but under control of \s-1OS\s0 that does not enable \s-1XMM\s0 registers. Even though you can manipulate the value programmatically, you most likely will find it more appropriate to set up an environment variable with the same name prior starting target application, e.g. on Intel P4 processor 'env OPENSSL_ia32cap=0x16980010 apps/openssl', or better yet 'env OPENSSL_ia32cap=~0x1000000 apps/openssl' to achieve same effect without modifying the application source code. Alternatively you can reconfigure the toolkit with no-sse2 option and recompile.

Less intuitive is clearing bit #28. The truth is that it's not copied from \s-1CPUID\s0 output verbatim, but is adjusted to reflect whether or not the data cache is actually shared between logical cores. This in turn affects the decision on whether or not expensive countermeasures against cache-timing attacks are applied, most notably in \s-1AES\s0 assembler module.

The vector is further extended with \s-1EBX\s0 value returned by \s-1CPUID\s0 with EAX=7 and ECX=0 as input. Following bits are significant:

Item "bit #64+3 denoting availability of BMI1 instructions, e.g. ANDN;"

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Item "bit #64+5 denoting availability of AVX2 instructions;" Item "bit #64+8 denoting availability of BMI2 instructions, e.g. MUXL and RORX;" Item "bit #64+18 denoting availability of RDSEED instruction;" Item "bit #64+19 denoting availability of ADCX and ADOX instructions;"