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<title>linux.git/crypto/cryptd.c, branch v2.6.31</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>crypto: cryptd - Use nivcipher in cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher    </title>
<updated>2009-06-02T04:04:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-29T07:33:53+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use crypto_alloc_base() instead of crypto_alloc_ablkcipher() to
allocate underlying tfm in cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher. Because
crypto_alloc_ablkcipher() prefer GENIV encapsulated crypto instead of
raw one, while cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher needed the raw one.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<pre>
Use crypto_alloc_base() instead of crypto_alloc_ablkcipher() to
allocate underlying tfm in cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher. Because
crypto_alloc_ablkcipher() prefer GENIV encapsulated crypto instead of
raw one, while cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher needed the raw one.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq</title>
<updated>2009-02-19T06:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-19T06:42:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Original cryptd thread implementation has scalability issue, this
patch solve the issue with a per-CPU thread implementation.

struct cryptd_queue is defined to be a per-CPU queue, which holds one
struct cryptd_cpu_queue for each CPU. In struct cryptd_cpu_queue, a
struct crypto_queue holds all requests for the CPU, a struct
work_struct is used to run all requests for the CPU.

Testing based on dm-crypt on an Intel Core 2 E6400 (two cores) machine
shows 19.2% performance gain. The testing script is as follow:

-------------------- script begin ---------------------------
#!/bin/sh

dmc_create()
{
        # Create a crypt device using dmsetup
        dmsetup create $2 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize $1` crypt cbc(aes-asm)?cryptd?plain:plain babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 $1 0"
}

dmsetup remove crypt0
dmsetup remove crypt1

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1M count=4 &gt;&amp; /dev/null
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1M count=4 &gt;&amp; /dev/null

dmc_create /dev/ram0 crypt0
dmc_create /dev/ram1 crypt1

cat &gt;tr.sh &lt;&lt;EOF
#!/bin/sh

for n in \$(seq 10); do
        dd if=/dev/dm-0 of=/dev/null &gt;&amp; /dev/null &amp;
        dd if=/dev/dm-1 of=/dev/null &gt;&amp; /dev/null &amp;
done
wait
EOF

for n in $(seq 10); do
        /usr/bin/time sh tr.sh
done
rm tr.sh
-------------------- script end   ---------------------------

The separator of dm-crypt parameter is changed from "-" to "?", because
"-" is used in some cipher driver name too, and cryptds need to specify
cipher driver name instead of cipher name.

The test result on an Intel Core2 E6400 (two cores) is as follow:

without patch:
-----------------wo begin --------------------------
0.04user 0.38system 0:00.39elapsed 107%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6566minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.07user 0.35system 0:00.35elapsed 121%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6567minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.34system 0:00.30elapsed 135%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.37system 0:00.36elapsed 119%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6607minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.36system 0:00.35elapsed 120%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.37system 0:00.31elapsed 136%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6594minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.34system 0:00.30elapsed 126%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6597minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.32system 0:00.31elapsed 125%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6571minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.34system 0:00.31elapsed 134%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6581minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.38system 0:00.31elapsed 138%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6600minor)pagefaults 0swaps
-----------------wo end   --------------------------


with patch:
------------------w begin --------------------------
0.02user 0.31system 0:00.24elapsed 141%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6554minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.34system 0:00.31elapsed 127%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6606minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.07user 0.33system 0:00.26elapsed 155%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6559minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.07user 0.32system 0:00.26elapsed 151%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.34system 0:00.26elapsed 150%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6603minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.03user 0.36system 0:00.31elapsed 124%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.35system 0:00.26elapsed 147%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6586minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.03user 0.37system 0:00.27elapsed 146%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.36system 0:00.26elapsed 154%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6594minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.35system 0:00.26elapsed 154%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6557minor)pagefaults 0swaps
------------------w end   --------------------------

The middle value of elapsed time is:
wo cryptwq: 0.31
w  cryptwq: 0.26

The performance gain is about (0.31-0.26)/0.26 = 0.192.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<pre>
Original cryptd thread implementation has scalability issue, this
patch solve the issue with a per-CPU thread implementation.

struct cryptd_queue is defined to be a per-CPU queue, which holds one
struct cryptd_cpu_queue for each CPU. In struct cryptd_cpu_queue, a
struct crypto_queue holds all requests for the CPU, a struct
work_struct is used to run all requests for the CPU.

Testing based on dm-crypt on an Intel Core 2 E6400 (two cores) machine
shows 19.2% performance gain. The testing script is as follow:

-------------------- script begin ---------------------------
#!/bin/sh

dmc_create()
{
        # Create a crypt device using dmsetup
        dmsetup create $2 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize $1` crypt cbc(aes-asm)?cryptd?plain:plain babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 $1 0"
}

dmsetup remove crypt0
dmsetup remove crypt1

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1M count=4 &gt;&amp; /dev/null
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1M count=4 &gt;&amp; /dev/null

dmc_create /dev/ram0 crypt0
dmc_create /dev/ram1 crypt1

cat &gt;tr.sh &lt;&lt;EOF
#!/bin/sh

for n in \$(seq 10); do
        dd if=/dev/dm-0 of=/dev/null &gt;&amp; /dev/null &amp;
        dd if=/dev/dm-1 of=/dev/null &gt;&amp; /dev/null &amp;
done
wait
EOF

for n in $(seq 10); do
        /usr/bin/time sh tr.sh
done
rm tr.sh
-------------------- script end   ---------------------------

The separator of dm-crypt parameter is changed from "-" to "?", because
"-" is used in some cipher driver name too, and cryptds need to specify
cipher driver name instead of cipher name.

The test result on an Intel Core2 E6400 (two cores) is as follow:

without patch:
-----------------wo begin --------------------------
0.04user 0.38system 0:00.39elapsed 107%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6566minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.07user 0.35system 0:00.35elapsed 121%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6567minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.34system 0:00.30elapsed 135%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.37system 0:00.36elapsed 119%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6607minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.36system 0:00.35elapsed 120%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.37system 0:00.31elapsed 136%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6594minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.34system 0:00.30elapsed 126%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6597minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.32system 0:00.31elapsed 125%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6571minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.06user 0.34system 0:00.31elapsed 134%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6581minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.38system 0:00.31elapsed 138%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6600minor)pagefaults 0swaps
-----------------wo end   --------------------------


with patch:
------------------w begin --------------------------
0.02user 0.31system 0:00.24elapsed 141%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6554minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.34system 0:00.31elapsed 127%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6606minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.07user 0.33system 0:00.26elapsed 155%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6559minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.07user 0.32system 0:00.26elapsed 151%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.05user 0.34system 0:00.26elapsed 150%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6603minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.03user 0.36system 0:00.31elapsed 124%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.35system 0:00.26elapsed 147%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6586minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.03user 0.37system 0:00.27elapsed 146%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6562minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.36system 0:00.26elapsed 154%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6594minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.04user 0.35system 0:00.26elapsed 154%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+6557minor)pagefaults 0swaps
------------------w end   --------------------------

The middle value of elapsed time is:
wo cryptwq: 0.31
w  cryptwq: 0.26

The performance gain is about (0.31-0.26)/0.26 = 0.192.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: cryptd - Add support to access underlying blkcipher</title>
<updated>2009-02-18T08:48:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-18T05:19:46+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher() will allocate a cryptd-ed ablkcipher for
specified algorithm name. The new allocated one is guaranteed to be
cryptd-ed ablkcipher, so the blkcipher underlying can be gotten via
cryptd_ablkcipher_child().

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher() will allocate a cryptd-ed ablkcipher for
specified algorithm name. The new allocated one is guaranteed to be
cryptd-ed ablkcipher, so the blkcipher underlying can be gotten via
cryptd_ablkcipher_child().

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: hash - Move ahash functions into crypto/hash.h</title>
<updated>2008-07-10T12:35:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-10T08:01:22+00:00</published>
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<id>18e33e6d5cc0495826f5245777cd267732815e01</id>
<content type='text'>
All new crypto interfaces should go into individual files as much
as possible in order to ensure that crypto.h does not collapse under
its own weight.

This patch moves the ahash code into crypto/hash.h and crypto/internal/hash.h
respectively.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
All new crypto interfaces should go into individual files as much
as possible in order to ensure that crypto.h does not collapse under
its own weight.

This patch moves the ahash code into crypto/hash.h and crypto/internal/hash.h
respectively.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] cryptd: Add asynchronous hash support</title>
<updated>2008-07-10T12:35:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Loc Ho</name>
<email>lho@amcc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-14T13:23:00+00:00</published>
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<id>b8a28251c2066a2ac6481fc49ced5eb7f078e49b</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch adds asynchronous hash support to crypto daemon.

Signed-off-by: Loc Ho &lt;lho@amcc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This patch adds asynchronous hash support to crypto daemon.

Signed-off-by: Loc Ho &lt;lho@amcc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] cryptd: Fix EINPROGRESS notification context</title>
<updated>2008-07-10T12:35:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-07T13:10:13+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The EINPROGRESS notifications should be done just like the final
call-backs, i.e., with BH off.  This patch fixes the call in cryptd
since previously it was called with BH on.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The EINPROGRESS notifications should be done just like the final
call-backs, i.e., with BH off.  This patch fixes the call in cryptd
since previously it was called with BH on.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] cryptd: Correct kzalloc error test</title>
<updated>2008-05-01T10:22:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>julia@diku.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T16:27:14+00:00</published>
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<id>b1145ce395f7785487c128fe8faf8624e6586d84</id>
<content type='text'>
Normally, kzalloc returns NULL or a valid pointer value, not a value to be
tested using IS_ERR.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Normally, kzalloc returns NULL or a valid pointer value, not a value to be
tested using IS_ERR.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p)</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T16:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T08:15:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using:

perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security`

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using:

perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security`

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] cryptd: Use geniv of the underlying algorithm</title>
<updated>2008-01-10T21:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-27T13:15:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=927eead52c958829ef62c8aa5da2751033a2cf98'/>
<id>927eead52c958829ef62c8aa5da2751033a2cf98</id>
<content type='text'>
If the underlying algorithm specifies a specific geniv algorithm then
we should use it for the cryptd version as well.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
If the underlying algorithm specifies a specific geniv algorithm then
we should use it for the cryptd version as well.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] ablkcipher: Add distinct ABLKCIPHER type</title>
<updated>2008-01-10T21:16:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-15T14:36:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=332f8840f7095d294f9bb066b175a100bcde214c'/>
<id>332f8840f7095d294f9bb066b175a100bcde214c</id>
<content type='text'>
Up until now we have ablkcipher algorithms have been identified as
type BLKCIPHER with the ASYNC bit set.  This is suboptimal because
ablkcipher refers to two things.  On the one hand it refers to the
top-level ablkcipher interface with requests.  On the other hand it
refers to and algorithm type underneath.

As it is you cannot request a synchronous block cipher algorithm
with the ablkcipher interface on top.  This is a problem because
we want to be able to eventually phase out the blkcipher top-level
interface.

This patch fixes this by making ABLKCIPHER its own type, just as
we have distinct types for HASH and DIGEST.  The type it associated
with the algorithm implementation only.

Which top-level interface is used for synchronous block ciphers is
then determined by the mask that's used.  If it's a specific mask
then the old blkcipher interface is given, otherwise we go with the
new ablkcipher interface.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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Up until now we have ablkcipher algorithms have been identified as
type BLKCIPHER with the ASYNC bit set.  This is suboptimal because
ablkcipher refers to two things.  On the one hand it refers to the
top-level ablkcipher interface with requests.  On the other hand it
refers to and algorithm type underneath.

As it is you cannot request a synchronous block cipher algorithm
with the ablkcipher interface on top.  This is a problem because
we want to be able to eventually phase out the blkcipher top-level
interface.

This patch fixes this by making ABLKCIPHER its own type, just as
we have distinct types for HASH and DIGEST.  The type it associated
with the algorithm implementation only.

Which top-level interface is used for synchronous block ciphers is
then determined by the mask that's used.  If it's a specific mask
then the old blkcipher interface is given, otherwise we go with the
new ablkcipher interface.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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