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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 1f4d1de12b09..be48ea51faee 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ int blkdev_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned cmd,
                 return put_uint(arg, bdev_io_opt(bdev));
         case BLKALIGNOFF:
                 return put_int(arg, bdev_alignment_offset(bdev));
+        case BLKDISCARDZEROES:
+                return put_uint(arg, bdev_discard_zeroes_data(bdev));
         case BLKSECTGET:
                 return put_ushort(arg, queue_max_sectors(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
         case BLKRASET: