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Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-lib.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-lib.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c index 2a8d638544a7..f9f24ec69c27 100644 --- a/block/blk-lib.c +++ b/block/blk-lib.c @@ -282,14 +282,18 @@ static int __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(struct block_device *bdev, * @nr_sects: number of sectors to write * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags (for bio_alloc) * @biop: pointer to anchor bio - * @discard: discard flag + * @flags: controls detailed behavior * * Description: - * Generate and issue number of bios with zerofiled pages. + * Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly + * writing zeroes to the device. + * + * If a device is using logical block provisioning, the underlying space will + * not be released if %flags contains BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP. */ int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct bio **biop, - bool discard) + unsigned flags) { int ret; int bi_size = 0; @@ -337,28 +341,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blkdev_issue_zeroout); * @sector: start sector * @nr_sects: number of sectors to write * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags (for bio_alloc) - * @discard: whether to discard the block range + * @flags: controls detailed behavior * * Description: - * Zero-fill a block range. If the discard flag is set and the block - * device guarantees that subsequent READ operations to the block range - * in question will return zeroes, the blocks will be discarded. Should - * the discard request fail, if the discard flag is not set, or if - * discard_zeroes_data is not supported, this function will resort to - * zeroing the blocks manually, thus provisioning (allocating, - * anchoring) them. If the block device supports WRITE ZEROES or WRITE SAME - * command(s), blkdev_issue_zeroout() will use it to optimize the process of - * clearing the block range. Otherwise the zeroing will be performed - * using regular WRITE calls. + * Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly + * writing zeroes to the device. See __blkdev_issue_zeroout() for the + * valid values for %flags. */ int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, - sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, bool discard) + sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned flags) { int ret; struct bio *bio = NULL; struct blk_plug plug; - if (discard) { + if (!(flags & BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP)) { if (!blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO)) return 0; @@ -366,7 +363,7 @@ int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, blk_start_plug(&plug); ret = __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, - &bio, discard); + &bio, flags); if (ret == 0 && bio) { ret = submit_bio_wait(bio); bio_put(bio); |