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Generic wolfSSL Zephyr-module work extracted from the NXP RW612 EdgeLock port, plus the one settings.h change that port needs. Everything here stands on its own and is independent of the crypto callback key store API (wolfSSL#11336); this branch is master + 5 commits and carries no key store code.

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settings: detect any M-profile core without UMAAL, not just the Cortex-M3

WOLFSSL_ARM_ARCH_7M was derived from __ARM_ARCH_7M__, which names the Cortex-M3 and nothing else. UMAAL is not an ARMv7-M property though - it belongs to the DSP extension, optional on ARMv8-M. A Cortex-M33 built without DSP took the UMAAL path and would not assemble. The detection now keys on __ARM_FEATURE_DSP being absent on an M-profile core; the old __ARM_ARCH_7M__ arm stays, so nothing that built before changes.

zephyr: select ECC curves through Kconfig

The module hard-coded ECC_USER_CURVES with SECP256R1 only, so needing P-384, P-521 or a Brainpool curve meant patching user_settings.h. Each curve is now its own Kconfig option, P-256 still the default. The menu covers P-256, P-384, the 512-bit size, P-521 and the Brainpool family - deliberately not the sizes below 256, the Koblitz curves or brainpoolP320r1, none of which have a TLS or wolfPSA use case worth the generic-SP cost.

Brainpool selects P-521, which looks like overreach and is not: on the generic SP variant the enabled-curve ceiling must be strictly larger than the largest reachable Brainpool curve, and Brainpool stops at 512, so P-521 is the only size that lifts the ceiling without bringing a new Brainpool curve with it. Measured, not assumed - see the commit message.

zephyr: cover the ECC curve options with Twister

Getting the curve/SP pairing wrong fails at runtime with WC_KEY_SIZE_E, not at build time. Two wolfssl_test scenarios pin the NIST-only and Brainpool combinations.

zephyr: make the feature Kconfigs mean nothing when a settings file is used

The build-profile options only write the module's user_settings.h, which is never read when the application supplies its own settings file - so CONFIG_WOLFSSL_ECC_384=y next to a settings file was accepted and silently ignored. They now depend on not having one and disappear from the menu.

Kconfig.tls-generic is deliberately left alone: 47 of its 53 symbols are read by no code at all, so gating them would only make dead options look conditional. That file needs its own cleanup.

zephyr: replace the assembly options with a single arch-derived one

Four options guarded the assembly and between them could not express a working configuration on any target. WOLFCRYPT_ARMASM_THUMB2 selected the thumb2-* sources but nothing defined WOLFSSL_ARMASM_THUMB2, so the link failed on AES_*_AARCH32. The single-precision assembly had no option at all. WOLFCRYPT_INTELASM named the 32-bit source pair while user_settings.h declared WOLFSSL_X86_64_BUILD, so aes_asm.S compiled to an empty object and aes_gcm_x86_asm.S emitted 32-bit code into a 64-bit build.

They collapse into one WOLFCRYPT_ASM and the module derives the port from the CPU Zephyr reports: Cortex-M, AArch64, other 32-bit ARM, and x86_64 with its correct 64-bit filenames.

32-bit x86 is not offered - only the AES sources exist at that width. The x86_64 single-precision assembly is not offered either: sp_x86_64_asm.S is AVX throughout with no CPUID dispatch and no scalar counterpart, and Zephyr never enables YMM state.

Both set(TOOLCHAIN_C_FLAGS ...) calls go too. They could never have had an effect - Zephyr consumes that variable at zephyr/CMakeLists.txt:425 and only adds modules at line 788, and a plain set() in a subdirectory scope never reaches the parent. Confirmed by forcing the assignment to run unconditionally and finding neither flag in the resulting compile database.

Three library-wide fixes this needed

Enabling the assembly surfaced three defects in wolfSSL proper. Each is independent of Zephyr and is a separate commit at the front of the branch.

settings: keep the Zephyr platform block away from the assembler - the WOLFSSL_ZEPHYR block includes <zephyr/kernel.h> and <stdlib.h> and declares z_realloc, all of which reach .S files through libwolfssl_sources_asm.h. Every wolfSSL .S file was unbuildable on Zephyr, on every architecture - reproduced on x86_64 and, identically, on a Cortex-M33 with thumb2-aes-asm.S. Guarded with __ASSEMBLER__, matching what settings.h already does for STM32MP13.

sp_x86_64: spell the register bindings __asm__ - nine register sp_digit r asm("rax") declarations use the GNU asm keyword, unavailable under -std=c17. The statement asm on the very next line of each function already uses __asm__.

cpuid: only report AVX when the OS has enabled the YMM state - cpuid_set_flags() tested only the CPUID AVX feature bits, never OSXSAVE or XGETBV. An OS that does not context-switch YMM leaves CR4.OSXSAVE clear, so those instructions raise #UD no matter what CPUID says. wolfSSL dispatched to AVX anyway and crashed on the first AVX SHA-256 or AES-GCM path. Now gated on OSXSAVE plus XGETBV(0) & 0x6, the sequence Intel documents. No change on any OS that enables XSAVE.

Testing

  • All 8 wolfSSL sample scenarios pass under Twister on qemu_x86 (100%), including the Brainpool curve scenario and both no-malloc settings-file scenarios.
  • qemu_x86_64 with CONFIG_WOLFCRYPT_ASM=y: full wolfcrypt_test run, 43 passed / 0 failed, Exiting main with return code: 0, all seven Intel asm objects linked in. Before the cpuid fix the same image died with Invalid opcode / ZEPHYR FATAL ERROR 0: CPU exception inside sp_256_get_point_33_4.
  • frdm_rw612 builds and links with CONFIG_WOLFCRYPT_ASM=y; 32-bit qemu_x86 builds with the option correctly not offered.
  • Previously measured on frdm_rw612 hardware: ECDSA P-256 sign 16 to 136 ops/sec, verify 10 to 102, RSA-2048 public 86 to 194. wolfcrypt_test passes on device.

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@Frauschi Frauschi changed the title zephyr: ECC curve Kconfigs, settings-file gating, and the SP/Thumb2 assembly options zephyr: ECC curve Kconfigs, settings-file gating, and a single assembly option Sep 7, 2026
…x-M3

WOLFSSL_ARM_ARCH_7M selects the UMAAL-free variants in sp_cortexm.c and in the
thumb2-* assembly for Poly1305, Curve25519 and ML-KEM. It was derived from
__ARM_ARCH_7M__, which names the Cortex-M3 and nothing else.

UMAAL is not an ARMv7-M property though, it belongs to the DSP extension, which
on ARMv8-M is optional. An ARMv8-M part built without it, such as the Cortex-M33
in the NXP RW612, has no UMAAL and no __ARM_ARCH_7M__ either, so it took the
UMAAL path and would not assemble. WOLFSSL_SP_NO_UMAAL is not a way out: it is
derived from this symbol and covers only a subset of the sites.

Toolchains define __ARM_FEATURE_DSP exactly when the extension is present, so
key on its absence on an M-profile core. Verified against gcc for M0, M3, M4,
M7, M23, M33 and M33+nodsp: it is set only where UMAAL is genuinely missing.
The __ARM_ARCH_7M__ arm stays, so no configuration that worked before changes,
and the __ARM_ARCH_PROFILE test matches the one already in cpuid.c.
The WOLFSSL_ZEPHYR block includes <zephyr/kernel.h>, <zephyr/sys/printk.h>,
<zephyr/sys/util.h> and <stdlib.h>, and declares z_realloc. Assembly sources
reach settings.h through libwolfssl_sources_asm.h, so all of that was being
handed to the assembler, which stops at the first C declaration it meets:

  stddef.h:160: Error: no such instruction: `typedef long int ptrdiff_t'

That makes every wolfSSL .S file unbuildable on Zephyr. It is not specific to
one architecture or one algorithm - reproduced on x86_64 with chacha_asm.S,
sha256_asm.S, sha512_asm.S and aes_asm.S, and on a Cortex-M33 with
thumb2-aes-asm.S, which fails identically:

  stddef.h:160: Error: bad instruction `typedef int ptrdiff_t'

Zephyr ports that use the *_c.c inline-assembly variants never noticed,
because those are compiled as C.

Guard the block with __ASSEMBLER__, matching what settings.h already does for
the STM32MP13 header. Assembly still gets the feature macros from
user_settings.h; it just no longer gets the C declarations. No effect on any
C translation unit - __ASSEMBLER__ is only defined when the compiler driver
is assembling.
…s them

The nine div-word helpers bind a variable to rax with the bare asm keyword:

  register sp_digit r asm("rax");

asm is a GNU extension, not an ISO C keyword, so it is unavailable under
-std=c17 and the file will not compile:

  sp_x86_64.c:597: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
                          before 'asm'

Zephyr compiles with -std=c17, which is how this surfaced, but any strict-ISO
build hits it. __asm__ is the alternate spelling GCC and Clang keep available
regardless of -std, and it is what the very next line of each of these
functions already uses for the statement asm - so this only makes the two
consistent.
Comment thread wolfcrypt/src/port/arm/armv8-aes-asm.asm
Comment thread wolfcrypt/src/port/arm/armv8-sha256-asm.asm
Comment thread wolfcrypt/src/port/arm/armv8-sha256-asm.S
Comment thread wolfssl/wolfcrypt/settings.h
Comment thread zephyr/samples/wolfssl_test/sample.yaml Outdated
Comment thread zephyr/user_settings.h
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Comment thread zephyr/samples/wolfssl_test/sample.yaml
Comment thread wolfcrypt/src/cpuid.c
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CPUID's AVX and AVX-512 bits say the silicon has the unit. Executing one of
those instructions also requires the OS to have turned on extended state:
CR4.OSXSAVE, plus the matching XCR0 components - SSE and AVX for VEX
encodings, and opmask, ZMM_Hi256 and Hi16_ZMM on top of those for EVEX. An OS
that does not context-switch those registers leaves them clear, and the
instruction then raises #UD no matter what CPUID advertises.

cpuid_set_flags() tested the feature bits alone, so on such a system wolfSSL
set CPUID_AVX1/AVX2/VAES/AVX512* and dispatched to implementations the CPU
would refuse. Zephyr is one such system - its x86 context switch is
fxsave/fxrstor and it never sets CR4.OSXSAVE - and the result is an immediate
crash the first time SHA-256 or AES-GCM picks a vector path:

  <err> os: Invalid opcode
  >>> ZEPHYR FATAL ERROR 0: CPU exception on CPU 0

Gate each family on OSXSAVE plus the XCR0 components it actually needs, the
sequence Intel documents for this. The AVX-512 dispatch sites are the reason
the masks have to differ: AesEcbEncryptBlocks(), AES_GCM_init_*,
chacha_avx512_beneficial() and poly1305_use_avx512() all branch on
IS_INTEL_AVX512 && IS_INTEL_VAES without consulting AVX1 or AVX2, so gating
only the 256-bit flags would leave the 512-bit paths reachable on exactly the
systems this is meant to protect. Keeping them on one gate would also be
wrong in the other direction, since 0x06 does not cover the ZMM state.

VAES is VEX or EVEX encoded, so it is gated with the AVX state; the AVX-512
dispatch sites test it alongside CPUID_AVX512, which carries the stricter
mask.

Where an OS does enable XSAVE, which is every mainstream one, nothing
changes. XGETBV is itself only legal once OSXSAVE is set, so the two tests
have to stay in that order.
The ARMv8 AES and SHA-256 ports emit aese, aesmc and the sha256 crypto
instructions with no .arch or .arch_extension directive of their own, so they
assemble only when the command line already names a CPU that has the
extension.  Built against plain ARMv8-A, which is what -mcpu=cortex-a53 gives
you, the assembler refuses them:

  armv8-aes-asm.S: Error: selected processor does not support
                          `aese v0.16b,v1.16b'

Zephyr is one caller that lands there.  It derives -mcpu from the board's
Kconfig and has no symbol for the crypto extension, so there is nothing for a
build system layered on top to key on, and naming a CPU in the module would
retarget the library on every board that is not that CPU.  Anything else
compiling for the base architecture meets the same wall.

A file-scope .arch_extension crypto applies to the rest of the translation
unit, so one directive per file does what would otherwise take sixty inline
copies.  All three outputs carry it - bare in the GNU assembler file, wrapped
in __asm__() in the C file, and a comment in the armasm64 file, which
assembles these instructions unconditionally.  Each sits inside the existing
WOLFSSL_ARMASM_NO_HW_CRYPTO guard, so a build that has opted out of the
hardware paths never asks for an extension it will not use.

Regenerated from the scripts repository, which carries the matching change.

Verified on qemu_cortex_a53 under Zephyr: wolfcrypt_test passes 43 of 43 with
2723 aese instructions in the image, where before neither file assembled.
The SHA-3, SHA-512 and FrodoKEM ARM64 ports guard their .arch_extension sha3
with __APPLE__, on the assumption that every other assembler learns about the
extension from the command line.  That does not hold.  Assembling for plain
ARMv8-A with the GNU assembler:

  armv8-sha3-asm.S: Error: selected processor does not support
                           `eor3 v31.16b,v0.16b,v5.16b,v10.16b'

Emit the directive unconditionally.  It is a no-op where the extension is
already enabled, so the Apple path is unchanged.

Regenerated from the scripts repository, which carries the matching change.
L_mlkem_aarch64_consts sat outside the WOLFSSL_HAVE_MLKEM conditional while
every other constant in the file - zetas, zetas_inv, q - sat inside it. With
ML-KEM off the C output then declares a static const nothing references, and a
-Werror build stops:

  armv8-mlkem-asm_c.c:37: error: 'L_mlkem_aarch64_consts' defined but not used
    [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]

Zephyr compiles wolfSSL with -Werror, so this made armv8-mlkem-asm_c.c
unbuildable on any aarch64 target that does not enable ML-KEM - which is every
one of them by default.

The cause is in the generator: Kyber_ARM64_Neon_ASM#initialize emitted the
constant, but write() is what opens the guard, and it runs later. Fixed there by
moving the emission into a define_consts() called from write(), mirroring the
existing define_q(); these files are the regenerated result. All three outputs
change by the same three-line move and nothing else.
A WOLFSSL_CUSTOM_CURVES build fails at runtime on its own largest enabled
curve. Enabling Brainpool with sizes 256, 384 and 512 gives

  ecc_test_curve_size 64 failed!  (WC_KEY_SIZE_E, -234)

and it is not a bp512 quirk: a bp256-only build fails on bp256, a
bp256+bp384 build on bp384. Every time it is the largest curve in the set.

The ceiling is off by exactly one bit. Under custom curves ECC_KEY_MAX_BITS()
takes the "dp->size * 8 + 1" variant, for orders a bit larger than their prime,
but MAX_ECC_BITS_NEEDED is the plain curve size. MP_BITS_CNT() rounds up to
whole digits, so that single bit puts the key one digit past the ceiling and
MP_BITS_OVER_MAX() rejects it.

Carry the same bit in the ceiling via MAX_ECC_BITS_EXTRA, and compare against
it in the guard that rejects a too-small user MAX_ECC_BITS.

Second, MAX_ECC_BITS_USE derived from MAX_ECC_BITS_NEEDED, so the overridable
MAX_ECC_BITS never reached the runtime guard - defining it larger changed the
key struct but not the check, and there was no way to size the working values
for a curve that is not compiled in. Derive it from MAX_ECC_BITS instead; ecc.h
already refuses a value below what the enabled curves need, so this only ever
widens, and it is what an arbitrary curve passed to wc_ecc_set_custom_curve()
needs.

Both are no-ops for a build without custom curves.
The module hard-coded ECC_USER_CURVES with SECP256R1 and nothing else, so an
application needing P-384, P-521 or a Brainpool curve had to patch
user_settings.h. Each curve is now its own Kconfig option under WOLFSSL_ECC,
with P-256 the default so existing configurations are unaffected.

Two dependencies are encoded here rather than left for the next person to
hit, because both fail in a way that does not point at the cause.

Brainpool needs custom-curve support. Its curves are not prime-field NIST
curves, and ecc.c refuses to build them without WOLFSSL_CUSTOM_CURVES.

Custom curves in turn cannot coexist with the per-curve SP math this module
selects, because SP's fast paths are written per curve and cannot represent
an arbitrary one. Asking for Brainpool therefore moves the whole build onto
the generic SP variant, which costs size and costs speed on the common
curves. That is a real trade-off, and it is why Brainpool is opt-in.

Brainpool also selects P-521, which is worth spelling out because it looks
like overreach. On the generic variant an operation needs digit headroom
above the modulus, so the enabled-curve ceiling has to be strictly larger
than the largest Brainpool curve reachable; when it is not, that curve fails
at runtime with WC_KEY_SIZE_E. Measured on native_sim: brainpoolP256r1 fails
with a 256-bit ceiling, brainpoolP384r1 with a 384-bit one and
brainpoolP512r1 with a 512-bit one - each time the largest curve in the set.
The ceiling is MAX_ECC_BITS_NEEDED, which ecc.c derives from the enabled
HAVE_ECCxxx set alone, so no other knob raises it. Brainpool stops at 512
bits, which makes P-521 the only size that lifts the ceiling without
bringing a new Brainpool curve along with it.

P-256 keeps its inverted sense: it is the one curve wolfCrypt enables by
default, so it is turned off by defining NO_ECC256 rather than by omission.

Verified on frdm_rw612. With P-384 and P-521 selected, all three curves
generate a key and round-trip a signature on device; with the defaults the
image is unchanged at P-256 only and 20 KB smaller, since neither the extra
curves nor the generic math are pulled in.
The curve Kconfigs decide which curves wolfCrypt compiles and which SP
implementation backs them, and getting that pairing wrong fails at runtime
with WC_KEY_SIZE_E rather than at build time. Two wolfssl_test scenarios pin
the combinations that matter: the NIST curves on their per-curve SP paths
with no custom curve in sight, and the Brainpool set that forces the generic
backend and depends on the curve ceiling P-521 provides.
…s used

The build-profile options only write the module's user_settings.h, which is
never read when the application supplies its own settings file. So
CONFIG_WOLFSSL_ECC_384=y alongside a settings file was accepted and silently
ignored, and the same went for every other feature option.

They now depend on not having one, and disappear from the menu instead. This
needs a tracking bool because WOLFSSL_SETTINGS_FILE is a string symbol and
Kconfig evaluates a string in a logical context as always-false, which would
have made every one of these dependencies quietly unsatisfiable.

FIPS is gated on the master switch rather than on each version. WOLFCRYPT_FIPS
writes HAVE_FIPS into user_settings.h, so it belongs under the rule; putting
the dependency on the choice members alone would leave the version prompt
visible with nothing selectable and its default unreachable, while CMake still
compiled the FIPS bundle.

Kconfig.tls-generic is left alone here. Only two of its 53 symbols reach any
code, so gating the rest would make dead options look conditional; the commit
after this one deletes the file and rehomes those two with the dependency.

wolfssl_tls_sock's no-malloc scenario was setting five of those options next
to a settings file, so they now name symbols that are not visible. Drop them
and say why they are gone.

Options that drive the build rather than the wolfCrypt configuration, meaning
the implementation choice, the assembly port and the install path, are
untouched and stay selectable either way.
Kconfig.tls-generic is a copy of Zephyr's mbedTLS Kconfig.tls-generic with the
symbol prefix renamed, which is why a wolfSSL module carries options named
after mbedTLS internals - ECP is their elliptic-curve-over-prime-field module
and DP their domain parameters, neither of which means anything here.

Renaming the prefix was all that happened: nothing was wired up behind it. Of
the 53 config symbols in the file, exactly two reach any code, WOLFSSL_TLS_VERSION_1_2
and _1_3. Checked every symbol against the whole workspace - all .c, .h, .cmake,
CMakeLists.txt, Kconfig and .conf files under zephyr/ and modules/crypto/wolfssl.
The other 51 appear only in that file. Setting
CONFIG_WOLFSSL_ECP_DP_SECP384R1_ENABLED=y has always done precisely nothing,
and unlike the options the previous commit gated, these do nothing whether or
not a settings file is present.

Three of them are worse than inert. WOLFSSL_TLS_VERSION_1_0, _1_1 and _1_3
select WOLFSSL_ALLOW_TLSV10_ENABLED, WOLFSSL_NO_OLD_TLS_DISABLED and
WOLFSSL_TLS13_ENABLED, none of which is defined anywhere. Kconfig accepts a
select of an undefined symbol silently, so the reader sees a mechanism that
does not exist. user_settings.h even tested CONFIG_WOLFSSL_TLS13_ENABLED
alongside the real symbol; that half of the condition could never be true.

Delete the file and move the two live symbols into the module's own Kconfig,
next to WOLFSSL_DTLS where the other protocol options are, keeping the
settings-file dependency. The dead selects go with it, as do the four dead
options the two TLS samples were setting and the stale entry in
.wolfssl_known_macro_extras.

The ECC curve options that replaced the WOLFSSL_ECP_DP_* ones - and that do
reach user_settings.h - went in earlier in this branch.
Four options guarded the assembly - WOLFCRYPT_ARMASM, its THUMB2 companion,
WOLFCRYPT_INTELASM, and nothing at all for the single-precision math - and
between them they could not express a working configuration on any target.

WOLFCRYPT_ARMASM_THUMB2 selected the thumb2-* sources but nothing anywhere
defined WOLFSSL_ARMASM_THUMB2, so every caller still took the ARMv8 path and
the link failed on AES_*_AARCH32. It also needs WOLFSSL_ARMASM_NO_HW_CRYPTO,
since Cortex-M has no AES or SHA extension and the Thumb2 code is the whole
of it. The single-precision assembly had no option at all:
WOLFSSL_SP_ARM_CORTEX_M_ASM sat commented out inside an #if 0 while
sp_cortexm.c was already in the source list.

WOLFCRYPT_INTELASM was worse: it named the 32-bit source pair while
user_settings.h declared WOLFSSL_X86_64_BUILD, so aes_asm.S compiled to an
empty object behind its WOLFSSL_X86_BUILD guard and aes_gcm_x86_asm.S emitted
32-bit code into a 64-bit build. It could not have produced a working image.

Only one combination is ever right for a given board, so the four collapse
into WOLFCRYPT_ASM and the module derives the rest from the CPU Zephyr
reports: ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M mainline take Thumb2 plus the Cortex-M math,
AArch64 the ARMv8 and ARM64 ones, other 32-bit ARM the ARMv8-32 and ARM32
ones, and x86_64 the Intel symmetric set with its correct 64-bit filenames.

ARMv6-M and ARMv8-M baseline deliberately get no symmetric assembly. The
Thumb2 port uses UBFX and LDRD, neither of which those cores have, so keying
it on CONFIG_CPU_CORTEX_M would hand an M0 or M23 board code that cannot
assemble. They still get the Thumb math, which is the only thing wolfCrypt
ships for that profile - the same split the SP half already made.

Each ARM port sets two single-precision macros, not one. WOLFSSL_SP_<cpu>_ASM
compiles sp_<cpu>.c, the per-size backend for the RSA, DH and ECC sizes it
covers; the unsuffixed WOLFSSL_SP_<cpu> enables the inline-asm word primitives
inside sp_int.c, which is what the generic WOLFSSL_SP_MATH_ALL path uses for
every other size and curve. sp_int.c's own header block names them as separate
features and configure.ac sets them from separate options, neither implying
the other. Defining only the _ASM half - which is what this module did - left
Brainpool, custom curves and any uncovered RSA or DH size running with no
assembly at all.

The x86_64 set carries fe_x25519_asm.S but not the AES pair. curve25519.c
takes the Intel path whenever USE_INTEL_SPEEDUP is defined, so omitting the
former is a link error the moment an application enables the curve; the
latter define nothing but _aesni entry points whose callers sit behind
WOLFSSL_AESNI, which this module does not set, so they were bytes with no
reachable caller.

32-bit x86 is not offered. Only the AES sources have an implementation at
that width; sha256_asm.S, chacha_asm.S and poly1305_asm.S are all guarded to
WOLFSSL_X86_64_BUILD and would contribute nothing.

The x86_64 single-precision assembly is not offered either, and that one is
worth recording. sp_x86_64_asm.S is AVX throughout - over fifteen hundred VEX
instructions - and sp_x86_64.c calls into it unconditionally, with no CPUID
dispatch and no scalar counterpart. Zephyr's x86 context switch is
fxsave/fxrstor and it never sets CR4.OSXSAVE, so YMM state is neither saved
nor enabled and those instructions fault. The symmetric sources are fine
because they pick their implementation from CPUID at run time and now fall
back correctly.

Both set(TOOLCHAIN_C_FLAGS ...) calls go as well. They could never have had
an effect: Zephyr applies that variable globally at zephyr/CMakeLists.txt:425
and only add_subdirectory's modules at line 788, so the assignment ran after
the flags were consumed, and a plain set() in a subdirectory scope never
reached the parent either. Confirmed by forcing the assignment to run
unconditionally and finding neither -mcpu=cortex-a53+crypto nor
-mstrict-align anywhere in the resulting compile database.

HAVE___UINT128_T is defined wherever the compiler has the type. Every 64-bit
single-precision backend works in 128-bit intermediates; an autoconf build
learns the type is available from a configure probe, but with user settings
nobody sets it and sp_int.c fails on an undeclared sp_int_word. AArch64 needs
this as much as x86_64 does - qemu_cortex_a53 stops there before it ever
reaches the assembler.

One wolfssl_test scenario per port now covers the option in CI rather than by
hand: qemu_x86_64 for Intel, qemu_cortex_a53 for AArch64, and mps2/an521/cpu0,
a Cortex-M33, for Thumb2. The aarch64 one earned its keep immediately by
catching an unused-constant error in the generated ML-KEM assembly, fixed
earlier in this branch.

Measured on frdm_rw612 with the benchmark, ops/sec: ECDSA P-256 sign 16 to
136, verify 10 to 102, RSA-2048 public 86 to 194. Thumb2 is worth 1.5x on
AES-CBC and 1.3x on ChaCha20, and costs about 5% on SHA-256. wolfcrypt_test
passes on frdm_rw612 and on all three QEMU targets with the option set.
Comment thread zephyr/samples/wolfssl_test/prj-ecc-custom.conf
Comment thread zephyr/Kconfig
Comment thread zephyr/user_settings.h
Comment thread zephyr/user_settings.h
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