linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 01/13] fscrypt: simplify bounce page handling

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Date:   Thu, 02 May 2019 20:40:34 +0530
From:   Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] fscrypt: simplify bounce page handling

On Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:15:03 AM IST Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Currently, bounce page handling for writes to encrypted files is
> unnecessarily complicated.  A fscrypt_ctx is allocated along with each
> bounce page, page_private(bounce_page) points to this fscrypt_ctx, and
> fscrypt_ctx::w::control_page points to the original pagecache page.
> 
> However, because writes don't use the fscrypt_ctx for anything else,
> there's no reason why page_private(bounce_page) can't just point to the
> original pagecache page directly.
> 
> Therefore, this patch makes this change.  In the process, it also cleans
> up the API exposed to filesystems that allows testing whether a page is
> a bounce page, getting the pagecache page from a bounce page, and
> freeing a bounce page.

Looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.ibm.com>

-- 
chandan