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| author | Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> | 2009-03-04 10:05:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2009-03-04 10:05:33 +0300 |
| commit | a1d2f09544065b60598b8167d94a6371bff3e892 (patch) | |
| tree | cd8b88e7ea0cd44e7e369f670f9fdfcba78f4326 /include/linux/crypto.h | |
| parent | e9cc8bddaea3944fabfebb968bc88d603239beed (diff) | |
| download | linux-a1d2f09544065b60598b8167d94a6371bff3e892.tar.xz | |
crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
The current "comp" crypto interface supports one-shot (de)compression only,
i.e. the whole data buffer to be (de)compressed must be passed at once, and
the whole (de)compressed data buffer will be received at once.
In several use-cases (e.g. compressed file systems that store files in big
compressed blocks), this workflow is not suitable.
Furthermore, the "comp" type doesn't provide for the configuration of
(de)compression parameters, and always allocates workspace memory for both
compression and decompression, which may waste memory.
To solve this, add a "pcomp" partial (de)compression interface that provides
the following operations:
- crypto_compress_{init,update,final}() for compression,
- crypto_decompress_{init,update,final}() for decompression,
- crypto_{,de}compress_setup(), to configure (de)compression parameters
(incl. allocating workspace memory).
The (de)compression methods take a struct comp_request, which was mimicked
after the z_stream object in zlib, and contains buffer pointer and length
pairs for input and output.
The setup methods take an opaque parameter pointer and length pair. Parameters
are supposed to be encoded using netlink attributes, whose meanings depend on
the actual (name of the) (de)compression algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/crypto.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/crypto.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/crypto.h b/include/linux/crypto.h index 29729b834380..ec29fa268b94 100644 --- a/include/linux/crypto.h +++ b/include/linux/crypto.h @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SHASH 0x00000009 #define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AHASH 0x0000000a #define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_RNG 0x0000000c +#define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_PCOMPRESS 0x0000000f #define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_HASH_MASK 0x0000000e #define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AHASH_MASK 0x0000000c |