blkdev: add blkdev_issue_zeroout helper function

- Add bio_batch helper primitive. This is rather generic primitive
  for submitting/waiting a complex request which consists of several
  bios.
- blkdev_issue_zeroout() generate number of zero filed write bios.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 59b9aed0ee7d..3ac2bd2fc485 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1008,7 +1008,8 @@ extern int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *, gfp_t, sector_t *,
                         unsigned long);
 extern int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
                 sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned long flags);
-
+extern int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
+                        sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned long flags);
 static inline int sb_issue_discard(struct super_block *sb,
                                    sector_t block, sector_t nr_blocks)
 {