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# 68adcad5 17-Jan-2012 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

lib: MPILIB Kconfig description update

It was reported that description of the MPILIB_EXTRA is confusing.
Indeed it was copy-paste typo. It is fixed here.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Klet

lib: MPILIB Kconfig description update

It was reported that description of the MPILIB_EXTRA is confusing.
Indeed it was copy-paste typo. It is fixed here.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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# be440ec7 17-Jan-2012 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

lib: digital signature dependency fix

Randy Dunlap reported build break:

ERROR: "crypto_alloc_shash" [lib/digsig.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "crypto_shash_final" [lib/digsig.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "crypto

lib: digital signature dependency fix

Randy Dunlap reported build break:

ERROR: "crypto_alloc_shash" [lib/digsig.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "crypto_shash_final" [lib/digsig.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "crypto_shash_update" [lib/digsig.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "crypto_destroy_tfm" [lib/digsig.ko] undefined!

Added CRYPTO dependency and selected SHA1 algorithm.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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# 5e8898e9 17-Jan-2012 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

lib: digital signature config option name change

It was reported that DIGSIG is confusing name for digital signature
module. It was suggested to rename DIGSIG to SIGNATURE.

Requested-by: Linus Torv

lib: digital signature config option name change

It was reported that DIGSIG is confusing name for digital signature
module. It was suggested to rename DIGSIG to SIGNATURE.

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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# 75957ba3 28-Nov-2011 Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>

dql: Dynamic queue limits

Implementation of dynamic queue limits (dql). This is a libary which
allows a queue limit to be dynamically managed. The goal of dql is
to set the queue limit, number of

dql: Dynamic queue limits

Implementation of dynamic queue limits (dql). This is a libary which
allows a queue limit to be dynamically managed. The goal of dql is
to set the queue limit, number of objects to the queue, to be minimized
without allowing the queue to be starved.

dql would be used with a queue which has these properties:

1) Objects are queued up to some limit which can be expressed as a
count of objects.
2) Periodically a completion process executes which retires consumed
objects.
3) Starvation occurs when limit has been reached, all queued data has
actually been consumed but completion processing has not yet run,
so queuing new data is blocked.
4) Minimizing the amount of queued data is desirable.

A canonical example of such a queue would be a NIC HW transmit queue.

The queue limit is dynamic, it will increase or decrease over time
depending on the workload. The queue limit is recalculated each time
completion processing is done. Increases occur when the queue is
starved and can exponentially increase over successive intervals.
Decreases occur when more data is being maintained in the queue than
needed to prevent starvation. The number of extra objects, or "slack",
is measured over successive intervals, and to avoid hysteresis the
limit is only reduced by the miminum slack seen over a configurable
time period.

dql API provides routines to manage the queue:
- dql_init is called to intialize the dql structure
- dql_reset is called to reset dynamic values
- dql_queued called when objects are being enqueued
- dql_avail returns availability in the queue
- dql_completed is called when objects have be consumed in the queue

Configuration consists of:
- max_limit, maximum limit
- min_limit, minimum limit
- slack_hold_time, time to measure instances of slack before reducing
queue limit

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 66eab4df 24-Nov-2011 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

lib: add GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP

Many architectures want a generic pci_iomap but
not the rest of iomap.c. Split that to a separate .c
file and add a new config symbol. select automatically
by GENERIC_IOMA

lib: add GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP

Many architectures want a generic pci_iomap but
not the rest of iomap.c. Split that to a separate .c
file and add a new config symbol. select automatically
by GENERIC_IOMAP.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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# 4673ca8e 24-Nov-2011 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

lib: move GENERIC_IOMAP to lib/Kconfig

define GENERIC_IOMAP in a central location
instead of all architectures. This will be helpful
for the follow-up patch which makes it select
other configs. Code

lib: move GENERIC_IOMAP to lib/Kconfig

define GENERIC_IOMAP in a central location
instead of all architectures. This will be helpful
for the follow-up patch which makes it select
other configs. Code is also a bit shorter this way.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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# de353533 21-Nov-2011 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

digsig: build dependency fix

Fix build errors by adding Kconfig dependency on KEYS.
CRYPTO dependency removed.

CC security/integrity/digsig.o
security/integrity/digsig.c: In function ?integr

digsig: build dependency fix

Fix build errors by adding Kconfig dependency on KEYS.
CRYPTO dependency removed.

CC security/integrity/digsig.o
security/integrity/digsig.c: In function ?integrity_digsig_verify?:
security/integrity/digsig.c:38:4: error: implicit declaration of function ?request_key?
security/integrity/digsig.c:38:17: error: ?key_type_keyring? undeclared (first use in this function)
security/integrity/digsig.c:38:17: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[2]: *** [security/integrity/digsig.o] Error 1

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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# 051dbb91 14-Oct-2011 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

crypto: digital signature verification support

This patch implements RSA digital signature verification using GnuPG library.

The format of the signature and the public key is defined by their respe

crypto: digital signature verification support

This patch implements RSA digital signature verification using GnuPG library.

The format of the signature and the public key is defined by their respective
headers. The signature header contains version information, algorithm,
and keyid, which was used to generate the signature.
The key header contains version and algorythim type.
The payload of the signature and the key are multi-precision integers.

The signing and key management utilities evm-utils provide functionality
to generate signatures and load keys into the kernel keyring.
When the key is added to the kernel keyring, the keyid defines the name
of the key.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>

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# 7e8dec91 07-Nov-2011 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib - additional sources (part 4)

Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken
from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howell

crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib - additional sources (part 4)

Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken
from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells.
This version is taken from Fedora kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.
The difference is that checkpatch reported errors and warnings have been fixed.

This library is used to implemenet RSA digital signature verification
used in IMA/EVM integrity protection subsystem.

Due to patch size limitation, the patch is divided into 4 parts.

This code is unnecessary for RSA digital signature verification,
but for completeness it is included here and can be compiled,
if CONFIG_MPILIB_EXTRA is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

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# d9c46b18 31-Aug-2011 Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib - make files (part 3)

Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken
from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells.
This

crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib - make files (part 3)

Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken
from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells.
This version is taken from Fedora kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.
The difference is that checkpatch reported errors and warnings have been fixed.

This library is used to implemenet RSA digital signature verification
used in IMA/EVM integrity protection subsystem.

Due to patch size limitation, the patch is divided into 4 parts.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

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# 435a95c5 29-Jul-2011 Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>

Docs: Kconfig: CORDIC description

This is just some copyediting.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# d89ce936 29-Jul-2011 Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>

Docs: wording: functions -> algorithm

The code seems to provide a single function that implements the
CORDIC algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Docs: wording: functions -> algorithm

The code seems to provide a single function that implements the
CORDIC algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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# 0314322d 29-Jul-2011 Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>

Docs: Pedantry: [Cc]ordic -> CORDIC

According to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC

it stands for:

*CO*ordinate *R*otation *DI*gital *C*omputer

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmai

Docs: Pedantry: [Cc]ordic -> CORDIC

According to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC

it stands for:

*CO*ordinate *R*otation *DI*gital *C*omputer

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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# 1230db8e 08-Sep-2011 Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

llist: Make some llist functions inline

Because llist code will be used in performance critical scheduler
code path, make llist_add() and llist_del_all() inline to avoid
function calling overhead an

llist: Make some llist functions inline

Because llist code will be used in performance critical scheduler
code path, make llist_add() and llist_del_all() inline to avoid
function calling overhead and related 'glue' overhead.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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# f49f23ab 13-Jul-2011 Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list

Cmpxchg is used to implement adding new entry to the list, deleting
all entries from the list, deleting first entry of the list and some
other operatio

lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list

Cmpxchg is used to implement adding new entry to the list, deleting
all entries from the list, deleting first entry of the list and some
other operations.

Because this is a single list, so the tail can not be accessed in O(1).

If there are multiple producers and multiple consumers, llist_add can
be used in producers and llist_del_all can be used in consumers. They
can work simultaneously without lock. But llist_del_first can not be
used here. Because llist_del_first depends on list->first->next does
not changed if list->first is not changed during its operation, but
llist_del_first, llist_add, llist_add (or llist_del_all, llist_add,
llist_add) sequence in another consumer may violate that.

If there are multiple producers and one consumer, llist_add can be
used in producers and llist_del_all or llist_del_first can be used in
the consumer.

This can be summarized as follow:

| add | del_first | del_all
add | - | - | -
del_first | | L | L
del_all | | | -

Where "-" stands for no lock is needed, while "L" stands for lock is
needed.

The list entries deleted via llist_del_all can be traversed with
traversing function such as llist_for_each etc. But the list entries
can not be traversed safely before deleted from the list. The order
of deleted entries is from the newest to the oldest added one. If you
want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must reverse the
order by yourself before traversing.

The basic atomic operation of this list is cmpxchg on long. On
architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the
list can NOT be used in NMI handler. So code uses the list in NMI
handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

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# 10f8113e 31-May-2011 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>

lib: cordic: add library module providing cordic angle calculation

The brcm80211 driver in the staging tree has a cordic function to
determine cosine and sine for a given angle. Feedback received fr

lib: cordic: add library module providing cordic angle calculation

The brcm80211 driver in the staging tree has a cordic function to
determine cosine and sine for a given angle. Feedback received from
John Linville suggested that these kind of functions should be made
available to others as a library function in the kernel tree. The
b43 driver also has a cordic angle calculation implemented.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reviewed-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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# 7150962d 31-May-2011 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>

lib: crc8: add new library module providing crc8 algorithm

The brcm80211 driver in staging tree uses a crc8 function. Based on
feedback from John Linville to move this to lib directory, the linux
so

lib: crc8: add new library module providing crc8 algorithm

The brcm80211 driver in staging tree uses a crc8 function. Based on
feedback from John Linville to move this to lib directory, the linux
source has been searched. Although there is currently only one other
kernel driver using this algorithm (ie. drivers/ssb) we are providing
this as a library function for others to use.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Reviewed-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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# 63e424c8 26-May-2011 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT}

By the previous style change, CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT,
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE, and CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT are not used
to t

arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT}

By the previous style change, CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT,
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE, and CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT are not used
to test for existence of find bitops anymore.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 0664996b 23-Mar-2011 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

bitops: introduce CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE

This introduces CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE to tell whether to use generic
implementation of find_*_bit_le() in lib/find_next_bit.c or not.

For now we se

bitops: introduce CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE

This introduces CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE to tell whether to use generic
implementation of find_*_bit_le() in lib/find_next_bit.c or not.

For now we select CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE for all architectures which
enable CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT.

But m68knommu wants to define own faster find_next_zero_bit_le() and
continues using generic find_next_{,zero_}bit().
(CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT and !CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE)

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 437aa565 11-Mar-2011 Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>

lib: add shared BCH ECC library

This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared
Reed-Solomon library.

Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to co

lib: add shared BCH ECC library

This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared
Reed-Solomon library.

Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to correct
errors in NAND flash devices requiring more than 1-bit ecc correction; they
are generally better suited for NAND flash than RS codes because NAND bit
errors do not occur in bursts. Latest SLC NAND devices typically require at
least 4-bit ecc protection per 512 bytes block.

This library provides software encoding/decoding, but may also be used with
ASIC/SoC hardware BCH engines to perform error correction. It is being
currently used for this purpose on an OMAP3630 board (4bit/8bit HW BCH). It
has also been used to decode raw dumps of NAND devices with on-die BCH ecc
engines (e.g. Micron 4bit ecc SLC devices).

Latest NAND devices (including SLC) can exhibit high error rates (typically
a dozen or more bitflips per hour during stress tests); in order to
minimize the performance impact of error correction, this library
implements recently developed algorithms for fast polynomial root finding
(see bch.c header for details) instead of the traditional exhaustive Chien
root search; a few performance figures are provided below:

Platform: arm926ejs @ 468 MHz, 32 KiB icache, 16 KiB dcache
BCH ecc : 4-bit per 512 bytes

Encoding average throughput: 250 Mbits/s

Error correction time (compared with Chien search):

average worst average (Chien) worst (Chien)
----------------------------------------------------------
1 bit 8.5 µs 11 µs 200 µs 383 µs
2 bit 9.7 µs 12.5 µs 477 µs 728 µs
3 bit 18.1 µs 20.6 µs 758 µs 1010 µs
4 bit 19.5 µs 23 µs 1028 µs 1280 µs

In the above figures, "worst" is meant in terms of error pattern, not in
terms of cache miss / page faults effects (not taken into account here).

The library has been extensively tested on the following platforms: x86,
x86_64, arm926ejs, omap3630, qemu-ppc64, qemu-mips.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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# a7a9a24d 01-Mar-2011 Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>

lib-average: Make config option selectable

Make CONFIG_AVERAGE selectable for out-of-tree users
such as compat-wireless.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

lib-average: Make config option selectable

Make CONFIG_AVERAGE selectable for out-of-tree users
such as compat-wireless.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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# c39649c3 19-Jan-2011 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

lib: cpu_rmap: CPU affinity reverse-mapping

When initiating I/O on a multiqueue and multi-IRQ device, we may want
to select a queue for which the response will be handled on the same
or a nearby CPU

lib: cpu_rmap: CPU affinity reverse-mapping

When initiating I/O on a multiqueue and multi-IRQ device, we may want
to select a queue for which the response will be handled on the same
or a nearby CPU. This requires a reverse-map of IRQ affinity. Add
library functions to support a generic reverse-mapping from CPUs to
objects with affinity and the specific case where the objects are
IRQs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 3ebe1243 12-Jan-2011 Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>

decompressors: add boot-time XZ support

This implements the API defined in <linux/decompress/generic.h> which is
used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together
with the f

decompressors: add boot-time XZ support

This implements the API defined in <linux/decompress/generic.h> which is
used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together
with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd;
XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes.

The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter
than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the
arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel.
Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be
increased (30 KiB is enough).

The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and
memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all
arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in
decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 24fa0402 12-Jan-2011 Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>

decompressors: add XZ decompressor module

In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that
got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by
XZ Uti

decompressors: add XZ decompressor module

In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that
got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by
XZ Utils.

These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel. Most of
the code is as is from XZ Embedded <http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html>.
It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too.

Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel:
- Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's
not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression.
- Integrity check support (CRC32)
- BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on
certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can
produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images
than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower.

This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module
(xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool,
and documentation. The xz_dec module is enough to have a usable XZ
decompressor e.g. for Squashfs.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# c5485a7e 15-Nov-2010 Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>

lib: Add generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) function

This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving
Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a s

lib: Add generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) function

This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving
Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a structure which keeps the
EWMA parameters and a scaled up internal representation to reduce rounding
errors.

The original idea for this implementation came from the rt2x00 driver
(rt2x00link.c). I would like to use it in several places in the mac80211 and
ath5k code and I hope it can be useful in many other places in the kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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