On Tue 18 Dec 2018 08:57:36 AM CET, Anton Nefedov wrote:
> The flag is supposed to indicate that the region of the disk image has
> to be sufficiently allocated so it reads as zeroes.
>
> The call with the flag set must return -ENOTSUP if allocation cannot
> be done efficiently.
> This has to be made sure of by both
>   - the drivers that support the flag
>   - and the common block layer (so it will not fall back to any slowpath
>     (like writing zero buffers) in case the driver does not support
>     the flag).
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefe...@virtuozzo.com>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>

Berto

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