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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2009-12-03 09:24:48 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-12-03 09:24:48 +0100
commit98262f2762f0067375f83824d81ea929e37e6bfe (patch)
treea26618d5c305eed975501c80cb02bc0f1b6e4524 /include
parent464191c65b85a8ec68a6e1a6293af625287c807e (diff)
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block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h14
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index e727f6c..784a919 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -322,6 +322,7 @@ struct queue_limits {
unsigned char misaligned;
unsigned char discard_misaligned;
unsigned char no_cluster;
+ signed char discard_zeroes_data;
};
struct request_queue
@@ -1150,6 +1151,19 @@ static inline int queue_sector_discard_alignment(struct request_queue *q,
& (q->limits.discard_granularity - 1);
}
+static inline unsigned int queue_discard_zeroes_data(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+ if (q->limits.discard_zeroes_data == 1)
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline unsigned int bdev_discard_zeroes_data(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ return queue_discard_zeroes_data(bdev_get_queue(bdev));
+}
+
static inline int queue_dma_alignment(struct request_queue *q)
{
return q ? q->dma_alignment : 511;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 79cea80..891f7d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define BLKIOOPT _IO(0x12,121)
#define BLKALIGNOFF _IO(0x12,122)
#define BLKPBSZGET _IO(0x12,123)
+#define BLKDISCARDZEROES _IO(0x12,124)
#define BMAP_IOCTL 1 /* obsolete - kept for compatibility */
#define FIBMAP _IO(0x00,1) /* bmap access */
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