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

["Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>]

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
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