This gets us support for non-discard efficient write of zeroes (e.g. NVMe)
and prepares for removing the discard_zeroes_data flag.
Also remove a pointless discard support check, which is done in
blkdev_issue_discard already.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.com>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 2f704c3a816f..e405d8e58e31 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -2069,7 +2069,6 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode,
loff_t start,
loff_t len)
{
struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(bdev_file_inode(file));
- struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
struct address_space *mapping;
loff_t end = start + len - 1;
loff_t isize;
@@ -2108,15 +2107,10 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int
mode, loff_t start,
GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP);
break;
case FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE:
- /* Only punch if the device can do zeroing discard. */
- if (!blk_queue_discard(q) || !q->limits.discard_zeroes_data)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- error = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9,
- GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ error = blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9,
+ GFP_KERNEL,
BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK);
break;
case FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE |
FALLOC_FL_NO_HIDE_STALE:
- if (!blk_queue_discard(q))
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
error = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9,
GFP_KERNEL, 0);
break;
--
2.11.0
