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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-08-11 10:58:42 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-10-09 02:56:02 -0400
commitd30a2605be9d5132d95944916e8f578fcfe4f976 (patch)
tree91a8161cb09536ab838ef47fceabb0da0bea9256 /block/compat_ioctl.c
parent2ebca85abcfcbaaf1c0b242e39fc88ad3da90090 (diff)
Add BLKDISCARD ioctl to allow userspace to discard sectors
We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as unwanted before they format it, for example. The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/block/compat_ioctl.c b/block/compat_ioctl.c
index c23177e4623f..1e559fba7bdf 100644
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -788,6 +788,7 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
788 return compat_hdio_getgeo(disk, bdev, compat_ptr(arg)); 788 return compat_hdio_getgeo(disk, bdev, compat_ptr(arg));
789 case BLKFLSBUF: 789 case BLKFLSBUF:
790 case BLKROSET: 790 case BLKROSET:
791 case BLKDISCARD:
791 /* 792 /*
792 * the ones below are implemented in blkdev_locked_ioctl, 793 * the ones below are implemented in blkdev_locked_ioctl,
793 * but we call blkdev_ioctl, which gets the lock for us 794 * but we call blkdev_ioctl, which gets the lock for us