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The updated memory management is described in the top part of the code. As one benefit of the changed memory management, the AIO and synchronous operation is now implemented in one common function. The AF_ALG operation uses the async kernel crypto API interface for each cipher operation. Thus, the only difference between the AIO and sync operation types visible from user space is: 1. the callback function to be invoked when the asynchronous operation is completed 2. whether to wait for the completion of the kernel crypto API operation or not In addition, the code structure is adjusted to match the structure of algif_aead for easier code assessment. The user space interface changed slightly as follows: the old AIO operation returned zero upon success and < 0 in case of an error to user space. As all other AF_ALG interfaces (including the sync skcipher interface) returned the number of processed bytes upon success and < 0 in case of an error, the new skcipher interface (regardless of AIO or sync) returns the number of processed bytes in case of success. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.