Add BLKDISCARD ioctl to allow userspace to discard sectors
authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:58:42 +0000 (15:58 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:56:02 +0000 (08:56 +0200)
We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as
unwanted before they format it, for example.

The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length
in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to
be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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