linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/26] fscrypto: Add buffer operations

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:05:42 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, dedekind1@...il.com,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, tytso@....edu, jaegeuk@...nel.org,
        david@...ma-star.at, wd@...x.de, sbabic@...x.de,
        dengler@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/26] fscrypto: Add buffer operations

Christoph,

On 21.10.2016 15:24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:17:03PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> UBIFS works on kmalloc()'ed buffers where it constructs the NAND/NOR pages
>> which will be written to the MTD. JFFS2 does the same.
> 
> Yes, you can trivially do a virt_to_page on a kmalloc buffer.
> 
>> Another reason why I did the buffer functions is because fscrypt_encrypt_page()
>> always allocates a bounce page as temporary memory. For ext4 this is needed,
>> for UBIFS not.
>> UBIFS has already a construction buffer, especially since it also does compression.
> 
> We should defintively find a way to avoid that, but it's a separate
> issue from adding another API just to pass buffers.

Okay, I'll address this in v2 of my series.

Thanks,
//richard