fspacectl(2) is a system call to provide space management support to
userspace applications. VOP_DEALLOCATE(9) is a VOP call to perform the
deallocation. vn_deallocate(9) is a public KPI for kmods' use.
The purpose of proposing a new system call, a KPI and a VOP call is to
allow bhyve or other hypervisor monitors to emulate the behavior of SCSI
UNMAP/NVMe DEALLOCATE on a plain file.
fspacectl(2) comprises of cmd and flags parameters to specify the
space management operation to be performed. Currently cmd has to be
SPACECTL_DEALLOC, and flags has to be 0.
fo_fspacectl is added to fileops.
VOP_DEALLOCATE(9) is added as a new VOP call. A trivial implementation
of VOP_DEALLOCATE(9) is provided.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28347
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