* Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly
* writing zeroes to the device.
*
+ * Note that this function may fail with -EOPNOTSUPP if the driver signals
+ * zeroing offload support, but the device fails to process the command (for
+ * some devices there is no non-destructive way to verify whether this
+ * operation is actually supported). In this case the caller should call
+ * retry the call to blkdev_issue_zeroout() and the fallback path will be used.
+ *
* If a device is using logical block provisioning, the underlying space will
* not be released if %flags contains BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP.
*
struct bio *bio = NULL;
struct blk_plug plug;
- if (!(flags & BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP)) {
- if (!blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
- BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO))
- return 0;
- }
-
blk_start_plug(&plug);
ret = __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
&bio, flags);