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Eric Biggers d85926474f ext4: re-enable extent zeroout optimization on encrypted files 
For encrypted files, commit 36086d43f6 ("ext4 crypto: fix bugs in
ext4_encrypted_zeroout()") disabled the optimization where when a write
occurs to the middle of an unwritten extent, the head and/or tail of the
extent (when they aren't too large) are zeroed out, turned into an
initialized extent, and merged with the part being written to.  This
optimization helps prevent fragmentation of the extent tree.

However, disabling this optimization also made fscrypt_zeroout_range()
nearly impossible to test, as now it's only reachable via the very rare
case in ext4_split_extent_at() where allocating a new extent tree block
fails due to ENOSPC.  'gce-xfstests -c ext4/encrypt -g auto' doesn't
even hit this at all.

It's preferable to avoid really rare cases that are hard to test.

That commit also cited data corruption in xfstest generic/127 as a
reason to disable the extent zeroout optimization, but that's no longer
reproducible anymore.  It also cited fscrypt_zeroout_range() having poor
performance, but I've written a patch to fix that.

Therefore, re-enable the extent zeroout optimization on encrypted files.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191226161114.53606-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
arch PPC: 2019-12-22 10:26:59 -08:00
block block: fix memleak when __blk_rq_map_user_iov() is failed 2019-12-20 11:52:01 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation ext4: allow ZERO_RANGE on encrypted files 2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
drivers block-5.5-20191221 2019-12-22 10:36:55 -08:00
fs ext4: re-enable extent zeroout optimization on encrypted files 2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
include Ext4 bug fixes (including a regression fix) for 5.5 2019-12-22 10:41:48 -08:00
init early init: fix error handling when opening /dev/console 2019-12-17 13:10:11 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: vmscan: protect shrinker idr replace with CONFIG_MEMCG 2019-12-17 20:59:59 -08:00
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CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS PPC: 2019-12-22 10:26:59 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.