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| author | Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com> | 2016-11-30 12:28:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2016-12-01 07:58:40 -0700 |
| commit | a6f0788ec2881ac14e97ff7fa6a78a807f87b5ba (patch) | |
| tree | 493bf4be078a224b84c405220965e7a6c00a505c /block/blk-core.c | |
| parent | e73c23ff736e1ea371dfa419d7bf8e77ee53044a (diff) | |
| download | linux-a6f0788ec2881ac14e97ff7fa6a78a807f87b5ba.tar.bz2 | |
block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES
This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-core.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 6c4a425690fc..3f2eb8d80189 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1950,6 +1950,10 @@ generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio) if (!bdev_is_zoned(bio->bi_bdev)) goto not_supported; break; + case REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES: + if (!bdev_write_zeroes_sectors(bio->bi_bdev)) + goto not_supported; + break; default: break; } |