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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2017-04-05 19:21:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -0600 |
| commit | cb365b9675fda026caba4cb5df83292cb7c0811a (patch) | |
| tree | fbb1e83537ed759ae63b5e1dc93f741acb30d552 /include | |
| parent | d928be9f853b9755692d7e9aed402c1809a88e56 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cb365b9675fda026caba4cb5df83292cb7c0811a.tar.bz2 | |
block: add a new BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK flag
This avoids fallbacks to explicit zeroing in (__)blkdev_issue_zeroout if
the caller doesn't want them.
Also clean up the convoluted check for the return condition that this
new flag is added to.
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 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index bd60f4401c9d..21a30f011674 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1350,6 +1350,7 @@ extern int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, struct bio **biop); #define BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP (1 << 0) /* do not free blocks */ +#define BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK (1 << 1) /* don't write explicit zeroes */ extern int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct bio **biop, |