Re: make secure erase and write zeroes ioctls interruptible as well

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Christoph,

> Following discard in the last merge window, this series also makes
> secure erase and discard interruptible by fatal signals.
>
> The secure erase side is a straight port of the discard support.
> Unfortunately I don't have a way to test it, so I'm adding the eMMC
> maintainer as that is where the support originated so maybe they can
> give it a spin? (just do a blkdiscard -f -s /dev/<dev> and then
> Ctrl+C)
>
> The write zeroes support is a bit different as it is more complex due
> to the fallback code and there already is a helper taking flags that
> we piggy back on. This side has been extensively tested.

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering




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