From: Mikulas Patocka <[email-masked]>

This patch introduces dm_kcopyd_zero() to make it easy to use 
kcopyd to write zeros into the requested areas instead
instead of copying.  It is implemented by passing a NULL
copying source to dm_kcopyd_copy().  

The forthcoming thin provisioning target uses this.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <[email-masked]>

---
 drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c    |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ struct dm_kcopyd_client {
 	struct list_head pages_jobs;
 };
 
+static struct page_list zero_page_list;
+
 static void wake(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc)
 {
 	queue_work(kc->kcopyd_wq, &kc->kcopyd_work);
@@ -254,6 +256,9 @@ int __init dm_kcopyd_init(void)
 	if (!_job_cache)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	zero_page_list.next = &zero_page_list;
+	zero_page_list.page = ZERO_PAGE(0);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -322,7 +327,7 @@ static int run_complete_job(struct kcopy
 	dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn = job->fn;
 	struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc = job->kc;
 
-	if (job->pages)
+	if (job->pages && job->pages != &zero_page_list)
 		kcopyd_put_pages(kc, job->pages);
 	/*
 	 * If this is the master job, the sub jobs have already
@@ -484,6 +489,8 @@ static void dispatch_job(struct kcopyd_j
 	atomic_inc(&kc->nr_jobs);
 	if (unlikely(!job->source.count))
 		push(&kc->complete_jobs, job);
+	else if (job->pages == &zero_page_list)
+		push(&kc->io_jobs, job);
 	else
 		push(&kc->pages_jobs, job);
 	wake(kc);
@@ -592,14 +599,20 @@ int dm_kcopyd_copy(struct dm_kcopyd_clie
 	job->flags = flags;
 	job->read_err = 0;
 	job->write_err = 0;
-	job->rw = READ;
-
-	job->source = *from;
 
 	job->num_dests = num_dests;
 	memcpy(&job->dests, dests, sizeof(*dests) * num_dests);
 
-	job->pages = NULL;
+	if (from) {
+		job->source = *from;
+		job->pages = NULL;
+		job->rw = READ;
+	} else {
+		memset(&job->source, 0, sizeof job->source);
+		job->source.count = job->dests[0].count;
+		job->pages = &zero_page_list;
+		job->rw = WRITE;
+	}
 
 	job->fn = fn;
 	job->context = context;
@@ -617,6 +630,14 @@ int dm_kcopyd_copy(struct dm_kcopyd_clie
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_copy);
 
+int dm_kcopyd_zero(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
+		   unsigned num_dests, struct dm_io_region *dests,
+		   unsigned flags, dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context)
+{
+	return dm_kcopyd_copy(kc, NULL, num_dests, dests, flags, fn, context);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_zero);
+
 void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
 				 dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context)
 {
Index: linux/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h
+++ linux/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h
@@ -57,5 +57,9 @@ void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct 
 				 dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context);
 void dm_kcopyd_do_callback(void *job, int read_err, unsigned long write_err);
 
+int dm_kcopyd_zero(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
+		   unsigned num_dests, struct dm_io_region *dests,
+		   unsigned flags, dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context);
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif	/* _LINUX_DM_KCOPYD_H */