16 Oct, 2007

1 commit


11 Oct, 2007

1 commit


21 Sep, 2006

2 commits

  • The existing digest user interface is inadequate for support asynchronous
    operations. For one it doesn't return a value to indicate success or
    failure, nor does it take a per-operation descriptor which is essential
    for the issuing of requests while other requests are still outstanding.

    This patch is the first in a series of steps to remodel the interface
    for asynchronous operations.

    For the ease of transition the new interface will be known as "hash"
    while the old one will remain as "digest".

    This patch also changes sg_next to allow chaining.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch prepares the scatterwalk code for use by the new block cipher
    type.

    Firstly it halves the size of scatter_walk on 32-bit platforms. This
    is important as we allocate at least two of these objects on the stack
    for each block cipher operation.

    It also exports the symbols since the block cipher code can be built as
    a module.

    Finally there is a hack in scatterwalk_unmap that relies on progress
    being made. Unfortunately, for hardware crypto we can't guarantee
    progress to be made since the hardware can fail.

    So this also gets rid of the hack by not advancing the address returned
    by scatterwalk_map.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     

07 Jul, 2005

2 commits

  • The VIA Padlock device requires the input and output buffers to
    be aligned on 16-byte boundaries. This patch adds the alignmask
    attribute for low-level cipher implementations to indicate their
    alignment requirements.

    The mid-level crypt() function will copy the input/output buffers
    if they are not aligned correctly before they are passed to the
    low-level implementation.

    Strictly speaking, some of the software implementations require
    the buffers to be aligned on 4-byte boundaries as they do 32-bit
    loads. However, it is not clear whether it is better to copy
    the buffers or pay the penalty for unaligned loads/stores.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Herbert Xu
     
  • The VIA Padlock device is able to perform much better when multiple
    blocks are fed to it at once. As this device offers an exceptional
    throughput rate it is worthwhile to optimise the infrastructure
    specifically for it.

    We shift the existing page-sized fast path down to the CBC/ECB functions.
    We can then replace the CBC/ECB functions with functions provided by the
    underlying algorithm that performs the multi-block operations.

    As a side-effect this improves the performance of large cipher operations
    for all existing algorithm implementations. I've measured the gain to be
    around 5% for 3DES and 15% for AES.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Herbert Xu
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds