block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed

The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 3147145edc15..8606c9543fdd 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ static ssize_t queue_discard_max_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
         return queue_var_show(q->limits.max_discard_sectors << 9, page);
 }
 
+static ssize_t queue_discard_zeroes_data_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
+{
+        return queue_var_show(queue_discard_zeroes_data(q), page);
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 queue_max_sectors_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count)
 {
@@ -313,6 +318,11 @@ static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_discard_max_entry = {
         .show = queue_discard_max_show,
 };
 
+static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_discard_zeroes_data_entry = {
+        .attr = {.name = "discard_zeroes_data", .mode = S_IRUGO },
+        .show = queue_discard_zeroes_data_show,
+};
+
 static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_nonrot_entry = {
         .attr = {.name = "rotational", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR },
         .show = queue_nonrot_show,
@@ -350,6 +360,7 @@ static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = {
         &queue_io_opt_entry.attr,
         &queue_discard_granularity_entry.attr,
         &queue_discard_max_entry.attr,
+        &queue_discard_zeroes_data_entry.attr,
         &queue_nonrot_entry.attr,
         &queue_nomerges_entry.attr,
         &queue_rq_affinity_entry.attr,