From 0102c8c7fdfc4bd700971daff2b94470f4eafae4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dapeng Mi Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:52:33 +0800 Subject: perf/x86/intel: Rename DMR offcore_rsp attribute to offmodule_rsp DMR introduces Offmodule Response events in place of the legacy Offcore Response events, but it still exposes the inherited offcore_rsp PMU attribute for programming the corresponding MSR data. Rename the DMR PMU attribute to offmodule_rsp so the sysfs interface matches the underlying event name and avoids user & tooling confusion. Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260917015234.981153-12-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com --- .../admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst | 212 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 212 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4467f6d4b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +======== +dm-crypt +======== + +Device-Mapper's "crypt" target provides transparent encryption of block devices +using the kernel crypto API. + +For a more detailed description of supported parameters see: +https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt + +Parameters:: + + \ + [<#opt_params> ] + + + Encryption cipher, encryption mode and Initial Vector (IV) generator. + + The cipher specifications format is:: + + cipher[:keycount]-chainmode-ivmode[:ivopts] + + Examples:: + + aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 + aes-xts-plain64 + serpent-xts-plain64 + + Cipher format also supports direct specification with kernel crypt API + format (selected by capi: prefix). The IV specification is the same + as for the first format type. + This format is mainly used for specification of authenticated modes. + + The crypto API cipher specifications format is:: + + capi:cipher_api_spec-ivmode[:ivopts] + + Examples:: + + capi:cbc(aes)-essiv:sha256 + capi:xts(aes)-plain64 + + Examples of authenticated modes:: + + capi:gcm(aes)-random + capi:authenc(hmac(sha256),xts(aes))-random + capi:rfc7539(chacha20,poly1305)-random + + The /proc/crypto contains a list of currently loaded crypto modes. + + + Key used for encryption. It is encoded either as a hexadecimal number + or it can be passed as prefixed with single colon + character (':') for keys residing in kernel keyring service. + You can only use key sizes that are valid for the selected cipher + in combination with the selected iv mode. + Note that for some iv modes the key string can contain additional + keys (for example IV seed) so the key contains more parts concatenated + into a single string. + + + The kernel keyring key is identified by string in following format: + ::. + + + The encryption key size in bytes. The kernel key payload size must match + the value passed in . + + + Either 'logon', 'user', 'encrypted' or 'trusted' kernel key type. + + + The kernel keyring key description crypt target should look for + when loading key of . + + + Multi-key compatibility mode. You can define keys and + then sectors are encrypted according to their offsets (sector 0 uses key0; + sector 1 uses key1 etc.). must be a power of two. + + + The IV offset is a sector count that is added to the sector number + before creating the IV. + + + This is the device that is going to be used as backend and contains the + encrypted data. You can specify it as a path like /dev/xxx or a device + number :. + + + Starting sector within the device where the encrypted data begins. + +<#opt_params> + Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters, + the optional parameters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero. + Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments. + + Example of optional parameters section: + 3 allow_discards same_cpu_crypt submit_from_crypt_cpus + +allow_discards + Block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) are passed through the crypt device. + The default is to ignore discard requests. + + WARNING: Assess the specific security risks carefully before enabling this + option. For example, allowing discards on encrypted devices may lead to + the leak of information about the ciphertext device (filesystem type, + used space etc.) if the discarded blocks can be located easily on the + device later. + +same_cpu_crypt + Perform encryption using the same cpu that IO was submitted on. + The default is to use an unbound workqueue so that encryption work + is automatically balanced between available CPUs. + +high_priority + Set dm-crypt workqueues and the writer thread to high priority. This + improves throughput and latency of dm-crypt while degrading general + responsiveness of the system. + +submit_from_crypt_cpus + Disable offloading writes to a separate thread after encryption. + There are some situations where offloading write bios from the + encryption threads to a single thread degrades performance + significantly. The default is to offload write bios to the same + thread because it benefits CFQ to have writes submitted using the + same context. + +no_read_workqueue + Bypass dm-crypt internal workqueue and process read requests synchronously. + +no_write_workqueue + Bypass dm-crypt internal workqueue and process write requests synchronously. + This option is automatically enabled for host-managed zoned block devices + (e.g. host-managed SMR hard-disks). + +integrity:: + The device requires additional metadata per-sector stored + in per-bio integrity structure. This metadata must by provided + by underlying dm-integrity target. + + The can be "none" if metadata is used only for persistent IV. + + For Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD) + the is "aead". An AEAD mode additionally calculates and verifies + integrity for the encrypted device. The additional space is then + used for storing authentication tag (and persistent IV if needed). + +integrity_key_size: + Optionally set the integrity key size if it differs from the digest size. + It allows the use of wrapped key algorithms where the key size is + independent of the cryptographic key size. + +sector_size: + Use as the encryption unit instead of 512 bytes sectors. + This option can be in range 512 - 4096 bytes and must be power of two. + Virtual device will announce this size as a minimal IO and logical sector. + +iv_large_sectors + IV generators will use sector number counted in units + instead of default 512 bytes sectors. + + For example, if is 4096 bytes, plain64 IV for the second + sector will be 8 (without flag) and 1 if iv_large_sectors is present. + The must be multiple of (in 512 bytes units) + if this flag is specified. + +integrity_key_size: + Use an integrity key of size instead of using an integrity key size + of the digest size of the used HMAC algorithm. + + +Module parameters:: + max_read_size + Maximum size of read requests. When a request larger than this size + is received, dm-crypt will split the request. The splitting improves + concurrency (the split requests could be encrypted in parallel by multiple + cores), but it also causes overhead. The user should tune this parameters to + fit the actual workload. + + max_write_size + Maximum size of write requests. When a request larger than this size + is received, dm-crypt will split the request. The splitting improves + concurrency (the split requests could be encrypted in parallel by multiple + cores), but it also causes overhead. The user should tune this parameters to + fit the actual workload. + + +Example scripts +=============== +LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk +encryption with dm-crypt using the 'cryptsetup' utility, see +https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup + +:: + + #!/bin/sh + # Create a crypt device using dmsetup + dmsetup create crypt1 --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 babebabebabebabebabebabebabebabe 0 $1 0" + +:: + + #!/bin/sh + # Create a crypt device using dmsetup when encryption key is stored in keyring service + dmsetup create crypt2 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize $1` crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 :32:logon:my_prefix:my_key 0 $1 0" + +:: + + #!/bin/sh + # Create a crypt device using cryptsetup and LUKS header with default cipher + cryptsetup luksFormat $1 + cryptsetup luksOpen $1 crypt1 -- cgit v1.3.1