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>
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 59b9aed..3ac2bd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1008,7 +1008,8 @@
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)
{