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Log the encryption algorithm's driver name when a dm-crypt target is created. This will help people determine whether the expected implementation is being used. In some cases we've seen people do benchmarks and reject using encryption for performance reasons, when in fact they used a much slower implementation than was possible on the hardware. It can make an enormous difference; e.g., AES-XTS on ARM can be over 10x faster with the crypto extensions than without. It can also be useful to know if an implementation using an external crypto accelerator is being used instead of a software implementation. Example message: [ 29.307629] device-mapper: crypt: xts(aes) using implementation "xts-aes-ce" We've already found the similar message in fs/crypto/keyinfo.c to be very useful. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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.