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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-08-05 18:01:53 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-10-09 08:56:01 +0200
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Add 'discard' request handling
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such requests. The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even _if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more. [With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index dfc77012843f..539d873c820d 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -33,6 +33,23 @@ void blk_queue_prep_rq(struct request_queue *q, prep_rq_fn *pfn)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_prep_rq);
/**
+ * blk_queue_set_discard - set a discard_sectors function for queue
+ * @q: queue
+ * @dfn: prepare_discard function
+ *
+ * It's possible for a queue to register a discard callback which is used
+ * to transform a discard request into the appropriate type for the
+ * hardware. If none is registered, then discard requests are failed
+ * with %EOPNOTSUPP.
+ *
+ */
+void blk_queue_set_discard(struct request_queue *q, prepare_discard_fn *dfn)
+{
+ q->prepare_discard_fn = dfn;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_set_discard);
+
+/**
* blk_queue_merge_bvec - set a merge_bvec function for queue
* @q: queue
* @mbfn: merge_bvec_fn