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, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index c7ccabc..8a2bc12 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ void blk_set_default_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
 	lim->max_dev_sectors = 0;
 	lim->chunk_sectors = 0;
 	lim->max_write_same_sectors = 0;
+	lim->max_write_zeroes_sectors = 0;
 	lim->max_discard_sectors = 0;
 	lim->max_hw_discard_sectors = 0;
 	lim->discard_granularity = 0;
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@ void blk_set_stacking_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
 	lim->max_sectors = UINT_MAX;
 	lim->max_dev_sectors = UINT_MAX;
 	lim->max_write_same_sectors = UINT_MAX;
+	lim->max_write_zeroes_sectors = UINT_MAX;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_set_stacking_limits);
 
@@ -300,6 +302,19 @@ void blk_queue_max_write_same_sectors(struct request_queue *q,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_max_write_same_sectors);
 
 /**
+ * blk_queue_max_write_zeroes_sectors - set max sectors for a single
+ *                                      write zeroes
+ * @q:  the request queue for the device
+ * @max_write_zeroes_sectors: maximum number of sectors to write per command
+ **/
+void blk_queue_max_write_zeroes_sectors(struct request_queue *q,
+		unsigned int max_write_zeroes_sectors)
+{
+	q->limits.max_write_zeroes_sectors = max_write_zeroes_sectors;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_max_write_zeroes_sectors);
+
+/**
  * blk_queue_max_segments - set max hw segments for a request for this queue
  * @q:  the request queue for the device
  * @max_segments:  max number of segments
@@ -527,6 +542,8 @@ int blk_stack_limits(struct queue_limits *t, struct queue_limits *b,
 	t->max_dev_sectors = min_not_zero(t->max_dev_sectors, b->max_dev_sectors);
 	t->max_write_same_sectors = min(t->max_write_same_sectors,
 					b->max_write_same_sectors);
+	t->max_write_zeroes_sectors = min(t->max_write_zeroes_sectors,
+					b->max_write_zeroes_sectors);
 	t->bounce_pfn = min_not_zero(t->bounce_pfn, b->bounce_pfn);
 
 	t->seg_boundary_mask = min_not_zero(t->seg_boundary_mask,