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>

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
index bfb28b0..510a6fb 100644
--- a/block/blk-lib.c
+++ b/block/blk-lib.c
@@ -227,6 +227,55 @@ int blkdev_issue_write_same(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_issue_write_same);
 
 /**
+ * __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes - generate number of bios with WRITE ZEROES
+ * @bdev:	blockdev to issue
+ * @sector:	start sector
+ * @nr_sects:	number of sectors to write
+ * @gfp_mask:	memory allocation flags (for bio_alloc)
+ * @biop:	pointer to anchor bio
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *  Generate and issue number of bios(REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES) with zerofiled pages.
+ */
+static int __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(struct block_device *bdev,
+		sector_t sector, sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+		struct bio **biop)
+{
+	struct bio *bio = *biop;
+	unsigned int max_write_zeroes_sectors;
+	struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+
+	if (!q)
+		return -ENXIO;
+
+	/* Ensure that max_write_zeroes_sectors doesn't overflow bi_size */
+	max_write_zeroes_sectors = bdev_write_zeroes_sectors(bdev);
+
+	if (max_write_zeroes_sectors == 0)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	while (nr_sects) {
+		bio = next_bio(bio, 0, gfp_mask);
+		bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector;
+		bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
+		bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES, 0);
+
+		if (nr_sects > max_write_zeroes_sectors) {
+			bio->bi_iter.bi_size = max_write_zeroes_sectors << 9;
+			nr_sects -= max_write_zeroes_sectors;
+			sector += max_write_zeroes_sectors;
+		} else {
+			bio->bi_iter.bi_size = nr_sects << 9;
+			nr_sects = 0;
+		}
+		cond_resched();
+	}
+
+	*biop = bio;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
  * __blkdev_issue_zeroout - generate number of zero filed write bios
  * @bdev:	blockdev to issue
  * @sector:	start sector
@@ -259,6 +308,11 @@ int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 			goto out;
 	}
 
+	ret = __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
+			biop);
+	if (ret == 0 || (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP))
+		goto out;
+
 	ret = __blkdev_issue_write_same(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
 			ZERO_PAGE(0), biop);
 	if (ret == 0 || (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP))
@@ -304,8 +358,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blkdev_issue_zeroout);
  *  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
+ *  anchoring) them. If the block device supports WRITE ZEROES or WRITE SAME
+ *  command(s), 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.
  */