[PATCH 12/12] block: add special APIs for run-time disabling of discard and friends

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Thu May 30 13:09:14 PDT 2024


On 5/28/24 22:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> A few drivers optimistically try to support discard, write zeroes and
> secure erase and disable the features from the I/O completion handler
> if the hardware can't support them.  This disable can't be done using
> the atomic queue limits API because the I/O completion handlers can't
> take sleeping locks or freezer the queue.  Keep the existing clearing
> of the relevant field to zero, but replace the old blk_queue_max_*
> APIs with new disable APIs that force the value to 0.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>




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