xen/blk[front|back]: Enhance discard support with secure erasing support.

Part of the blkdev_issue_discard(xx) operation is that it can also
issue a secure discard operation that will permanantly remove the
sectors in question. We advertise that we can support that via the
'discard-secure' attribute and on the request, if the 'secure' bit
is set, we will attempt to pass in REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE.

CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Used 'flag' instead of 'secure:1' bit]
[v2: Use 'reserved' uint8_t instead of adding a new value]
[v3: Check for nseg when mapping instead of operation]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
index f88e28b6a27c..ee338bfde18b 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
@@ -84,6 +84,21 @@ typedef uint64_t blkif_sector_t;
  *     e07154r6-Data_Set_Management_Proposal_for_ATA-ACS2.doc
  * http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/
  *     Interface%20manuals/100293068c.pdf
+ * The backend can optionally provide three extra XenBus attributes to
+ * further optimize the discard functionality:
+ * 'discard-aligment' - Devices that support discard functionality may
+ * internally allocate space in units that are bigger than the exported
+ * logical block size. The discard-alignment parameter indicates how many bytes
+ * the beginning of the partition is offset from the internal allocation unit's
+ * natural alignment.
+ * 'discard-granularity'  - Devices that support discard functionality may
+ * internally allocate space using units that are bigger than the logical block
+ * size. The discard-granularity parameter indicates the size of the internal
+ * allocation unit in bytes if reported by the device. Otherwise the
+ * discard-granularity will be set to match the device's physical block size.
+ * 'discard-secure' - All copies of the discarded sectors (potentially created
+ * by garbage collection) must also be erased.  To use this feature, the flag
+ * BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE must be set in the blkif_request_trim.
  */
 #define BLKIF_OP_DISCARD           5
 
@@ -111,7 +126,8 @@ struct blkif_request_rw {
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
 struct blkif_request_discard {
-        uint8_t        nr_segments;  /* number of segments                   */
+        uint8_t        flag;         /* BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE or zero.        */
+#define BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE (1<<0)  /* ignored if discard-secure=0          */
         blkif_vdev_t   _pad1;        /* only for read/write requests         */
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
         uint32_t       _pad2;        /* offsetof(blkif_req..,u.discard.id)==8*/