* @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
*
* Description:
- * Generate and issue number of bios with zerofiled pages.
+
+ * 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 the WRITE SAME command
+ * 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.
*/
int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
- sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+ sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, bool discard)
{
+ struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+ unsigned char bdn[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
+ if (discard && blk_queue_discard(q) && q->limits.discard_zeroes_data) {
+
+ if (!blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, 0))
+ return 0;
+
+ bdevname(bdev, bdn);
+ pr_warn("%s: DISCARD failed. Manually zeroing.\n", bdn);
+ }
+
if (bdev_write_same(bdev)) {
- unsigned char bdn[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
if (!blkdev_issue_write_same(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
ZERO_PAGE(0)))
return 0;
bdevname(bdev, bdn);
- pr_err("%s: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.\n", bdn);
+ pr_warn("%s: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.\n", bdn);
}
return __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask);