From a1d2f09544065b60598b8167d94a6371bff3e892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:05:33 +0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- include/crypto/internal/compress.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 include/crypto/internal/compress.h (limited to 'include/crypto/internal') diff --git a/include/crypto/internal/compress.h b/include/crypto/internal/compress.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..178a888 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/crypto/internal/compress.h @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +/* + * Compress: Compression algorithms under the cryptographic API. + * + * Copyright 2008 Sony Corporation + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. + * + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + * GNU General Public License for more details. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + * along with this program. + * If not, see . + */ + +#ifndef _CRYPTO_INTERNAL_COMPRESS_H +#define _CRYPTO_INTERNAL_COMPRESS_H + +#include + +extern int crypto_register_pcomp(struct pcomp_alg *alg); +extern int crypto_unregister_pcomp(struct pcomp_alg *alg); + +#endif /* _CRYPTO_INTERNAL_COMPRESS_H */ -- cgit v1.1