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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2024-07-01 18:51:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2024-07-05 00:53:15 -0600 |
| commit | bf86bcdb40123ee99669ee91b67e023669433a1a (patch) | |
| tree | 96b195a2403a1d4a35028345b060aedaea0f7810 /include/linux/blkdev.h | |
| parent | 39722a2f2bcd82bdecc226711412d88b54fcb05b (diff) | |
blk-lib: check for kill signal in ioctl BLKZEROOUT
Zeroout can access a significant capacity and take longer than the user
expected. A user may change their mind about wanting to run that
command and attempt to kill the process and do something else with their
device. But since the task is uninterruptable, they have to wait for it
to finish, which could be many hours.
Add a new BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE flag for blkdev_issue_zeroout that checks
for a fatal signal at each iteration so the user doesn't have to wait for
their regretted operation to complete naturally.
Heavily based on an earlier patch from Keith Busch.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240701165219.1571322-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index dc250d8070d2..02e04df27282 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1095,6 +1095,7 @@ int blkdev_issue_secure_erase(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, #define BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP (1 << 0) /* do not free blocks */ #define BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK (1 << 1) /* don't write explicit zeroes */ +#define BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE (1 << 2) /* interruptible by fatal signals */ extern int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct bio **biop, |