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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2017-04-05 19:21:20 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2017-04-08 11:25:38 -0600
commit71027e97d796d1e9b210a2f64bf2cc25e225a4c0 (patch)
tree5c8a92f1126616ffba426158c5ce62a48e9120ac /block/blk-lib.c
parent5d1429fead5beacce6df052c31b28a97a11e250b (diff)
block: stop using discards for zeroing
Now that we have REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES implemented for all devices that support efficient zeroing, we can remove the call to blkdev_issue_discard. This means we only have two ways of zeroing left and can simplify the code. 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 'block/blk-lib.c')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-lib.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
index 2f882e22890b..b0c6c4bcf441 100644
--- a/block/blk-lib.c
+++ b/block/blk-lib.c
@@ -279,6 +279,12 @@ static int __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(struct block_device *bdev,
* Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly
* writing zeroes to the device.
*
+ * Note that this function may fail with -EOPNOTSUPP if the driver signals
+ * zeroing offload support, but the device fails to process the command (for
+ * some devices there is no non-destructive way to verify whether this
+ * operation is actually supported). In this case the caller should call
+ * retry the call to blkdev_issue_zeroout() and the fallback path will be used.
+ *
* If a device is using logical block provisioning, the underlying space will
* not be released if %flags contains BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP.
*
@@ -349,12 +355,6 @@ int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
struct bio *bio = NULL;
struct blk_plug plug;
- if (!(flags & BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP)) {
- if (!blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
- BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO))
- return 0;
- }
-
blk_start_plug(&plug);
ret = __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
&bio, flags);