Here is an update to my loop.c changes.
Herbert Riedel reported memory corruption typically of single
bytes when using a loop device backed by a file on an XFS filesystem
on a multiprocessor. I believe was due to lo_aops_send doing its call
to flush_dcache_page before writing to the effected memory rather than
after, which is what my new patch does. Herbert says that he may not
have time to retest for a little while, so I thought I ought to post
this update in case anyone else wants to comment or test.
Also in this version, <linux/loop.h> exports loop_iv_t, which
Herbert requested to simplify cryptoapi maintenance.
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