[RFC PATCH v4 10/11] block: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support

[Zhang Yi]

From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang at huawei.com>

Add support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES. It directly calls
blkdev_issue_zeroout() with flags set to 0. The underlying process will
attempt to use the fastest method for issuing zeroes. First, the block
layer will try to issue a write zeroes command if the storage device
supports it; if not, it will fall back to issuing zeroed data. Then, the
storage device driver may attempt to submit an unmap write zero command
if the device supports it; if not, the driver may fall back to
submitting a no-unmap write zeroes command.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang at huawei.com>
---
 block/fops.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
index 77a5465309e7..e590c8997689 100644
--- a/block/fops.c
+++ b/block/fops.c
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
 
 #define	BLKDEV_FALLOC_FL_SUPPORTED					\
 		(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE |		\
-		 FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE)
+		 FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES)
 
 static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t start,
 			     loff_t len)
@@ -847,6 +847,9 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t start,
 	case FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE:
 		flags = BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK;
 		break;
+	case FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES:
+		flags = 0;
+		break;
 	default:
 		error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		goto fail;
-- 
2.46.1