From 95477377995aefa2ec1654a9a3777bd57ea99146 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Herbert Xu Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:52:09 -0700 Subject: [CRYPTO] Add alignmask for low-level cipher implementations 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 --- include/linux/crypto.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/crypto.h b/include/linux/crypto.h index 26ce01c2574..ac9d49beecd 100644 --- a/include/linux/crypto.h +++ b/include/linux/crypto.h @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ struct crypto_alg { u32 cra_flags; unsigned int cra_blocksize; unsigned int cra_ctxsize; + unsigned int cra_alignmask; const char cra_name[CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME]; union { -- cgit v1.2.3