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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2005-11-05 00:58:14 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-01-09 17:15:37 -0500
commit5cb1454b862ab3040b78364d58330262fea1ddba (patch)
tree7e62126fa1f1398bb6a6b7f9e136aece32b0e112 /crypto/internal.h
parent06ace7a9bafeb9047352707eb79e8eaa0dfdf5f2 (diff)
[CRYPTO] Allow multiple implementations of the same algorithm
This is the first step on the road towards asynchronous support in the Crypto API. It adds support for having multiple crypto_alg objects for the same algorithm registered in the system. For example, each device driver would register a crypto_alg object for each algorithm that it supports. While at the same time the user may load software implementations of those same algorithms. Users of the Crypto API may then select a specific implementation by name, or choose any implementation for a given algorithm with the highest priority. The priority field is a 32-bit signed integer. In future it will be possible to modify it from user-space. This also provides a solution to the problem of selecting amongst various AES implementations, that is, aes vs. aes-i586 vs. aes-padlock. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
2 * Cryptographic API. 2 * Cryptographic API.
3 * 3 *
4 * Copyright (c) 2002 James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> 4 * Copyright (c) 2002 James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
5 * Copyright (c) 2005 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5 * 6 *
6 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
7 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 8 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
@@ -16,10 +17,15 @@
16#include <linux/highmem.h> 17#include <linux/highmem.h>
17#include <linux/interrupt.h> 18#include <linux/interrupt.h>
18#include <linux/init.h> 19#include <linux/init.h>
20#include <linux/list.h>
19#include <linux/kernel.h> 21#include <linux/kernel.h>
22#include <linux/rwsem.h>
20#include <linux/slab.h> 23#include <linux/slab.h>
21#include <asm/kmap_types.h> 24#include <asm/kmap_types.h>
22 25
26extern struct list_head crypto_alg_list;
27extern struct rw_semaphore crypto_alg_sem;
28
23extern enum km_type crypto_km_types[]; 29extern enum km_type crypto_km_types[];
24 30
25static inline enum km_type crypto_kmap_type(int out) 31static inline enum km_type crypto_kmap_type(int out)