linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH V2 07/11] fscrypt_zeroout_range: Encrypt all zeroed out blocks of a page

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Date:   Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:50:36 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 07/11] fscrypt_zeroout_range: Encrypt all zeroed
 out blocks of a page

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 06:37:24PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't clear enough with my explaination. I actually meant to say
> that not all blocks mapped by a page might be dirty and hence only a subset
> of the dirty blocks might need to be written to the disk.

But we only track dirtiness on a per-page level.  That's all the page
cache gives us.  Remember, the function name is ext4_bio_write_page()
or {btrfs,xfs,ext4}_writepage() --- we will always be writing a full
page at a time.

						- Ted