block: add discard support

Add a new bdrv_discard method to free blocks in a mapping image, and a new
drive property to set the granularity for these discard.  If no discard
granularity support is set discard support is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index fe07d0bbfb..9b5e9e11fe 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -1515,6 +1515,17 @@ int bdrv_has_zero_init(BlockDriverState *bs)
     return 1;
 }
 
+int bdrv_discard(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num, int nb_sectors)
+{
+    if (!bs->drv) {
+        return -ENOMEDIUM;
+    }
+    if (!bs->drv->bdrv_discard) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+    return bs->drv->bdrv_discard(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors);
+}
+
 /*
  * Returns true iff the specified sector is present in the disk image. Drivers
  * not implementing the functionality are assumed to not support backing files,