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authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2011-10-12 16:23:30 -0400
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2011-11-18 13:28:01 -0500
commit5ea42986694a96542644f9cae8b122d3a00c508f (patch)
treedd74685d8cd41e39ad14e708cb6e00e0ed016fb1 /include/xen
parent97e36834f5a106459ab1b290e663a4eb6264639e (diff)
downloadlinux-5ea42986694a96542644f9cae8b122d3a00c508f.tar.bz2
xen/blk[front|back]: Enhance discard support with secure erasing support.
Part of the blkdev_issue_discard(xx) operation is that it can also issue a secure discard operation that will permanantly remove the sectors in question. We advertise that we can support that via the 'discard-secure' attribute and on the request, if the 'secure' bit is set, we will attempt to pass in REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE. CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com> [v1: Used 'flag' instead of 'secure:1' bit] [v2: Use 'reserved' uint8_t instead of adding a new value] [v3: Check for nseg when mapping instead of operation] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/xen')
-rw-r--r--include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
index f88e28b6a27c..ee338bfde18b 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
@@ -84,6 +84,21 @@ typedef uint64_t blkif_sector_t;
* e07154r6-Data_Set_Management_Proposal_for_ATA-ACS2.doc
* http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/
* Interface%20manuals/100293068c.pdf
+ * The backend can optionally provide three extra XenBus attributes to
+ * further optimize the discard functionality:
+ * 'discard-aligment' - Devices that support discard functionality may
+ * internally allocate space in units that are bigger than the exported
+ * logical block size. The discard-alignment parameter indicates how many bytes
+ * the beginning of the partition is offset from the internal allocation unit's
+ * natural alignment.
+ * 'discard-granularity' - Devices that support discard functionality may
+ * internally allocate space using units that are bigger than the logical block
+ * size. The discard-granularity parameter indicates the size of the internal
+ * allocation unit in bytes if reported by the device. Otherwise the
+ * discard-granularity will be set to match the device's physical block size.
+ * 'discard-secure' - All copies of the discarded sectors (potentially created
+ * by garbage collection) must also be erased. To use this feature, the flag
+ * BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE must be set in the blkif_request_trim.
*/
#define BLKIF_OP_DISCARD 5
@@ -111,7 +126,8 @@ struct blkif_request_rw {
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_request_discard {
- uint8_t nr_segments; /* number of segments */
+ uint8_t flag; /* BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE or zero. */
+#define BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE (1<<0) /* ignored if discard-secure=0 */
blkif_vdev_t _pad1; /* only for read/write requests */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
uint32_t _pad2; /* offsetof(blkif_req..,u.discard.id)==8*/