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    dm crypt: log the encryption algorithm implementation · af331eba
    Eric Biggers authored
    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: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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