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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2017-04-05 19:21:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -0600 |
| commit | 48920ff2a5a940cd07d12cc79e4a2c75f1185aee (patch) | |
| tree | 0505a85fce20a0d34c5d4bbc71ba8771a037e209 /Documentation | |
| parent | 45c21793a6601b29926d67f7a07fe4077a45072e (diff) | |
| download | linux-48920ff2a5a940cd07d12cc79e4a2c75f1185aee.tar.bz2 | |
block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag
Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index 2da04ce6aeef..dea212db9df3 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -213,14 +213,8 @@ What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_zeroes_data Date: May 2011 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: - Devices that support discard functionality may return - stale or random data when a previously discarded block - is read back. This can cause problems if the filesystem - expects discarded blocks to be explicitly cleared. If a - device reports that it deterministically returns zeroes - when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data - parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and - the result of reading a discarded area is undefined. + Will always return 0. Don't rely on any specific behavior + for discards, and don't read this file. What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_same_max_bytes Date: January 2012 diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index b7f6bdc96d73..2c1e67058fd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -43,11 +43,6 @@ large discards are issued, setting this value lower will make Linux issue smaller discards and potentially help reduce latencies induced by large discard operations. -discard_zeroes_data (RO) ------------------------- -When read, this file will show if the discarded block are zeroed by the -device or not. If its value is '1' the blocks are zeroed otherwise not. - hw_sector_size (RO) ------------------- This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes. |