> What is the use case for exposing secure erase in qemu? The whole concept for > a LBA based secure erase is generally not a very smart idea for flash based > media.. Hi, Christoph We got a user requirement: support BLKSECDISCARD in VM. Which is: ioctl(BLKSECDISCARD) in guest -> qemu backend perform secure discard on native block device accordingly. This is a requirement to meet the security level of the project. So I sent out these patches to see whether qemu could accept such changes.
- [PATCH 0/2] support BLKSECDISCARD yadong . qi
- [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: support BLKSECDISCARD yadong . qi
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: support BLKSECDISC... Kevin Wolf
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: support BLKSECDISC... Stefan Hajnoczi
- RE: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: support BLKSEC... Qi, Yadong
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: support BL... Stefan Hajnoczi
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: suppo... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: s... Stefan Hajnoczi
- RE: [PATCH 1/2] block:hdev: s... Qi, Yadong
- [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: support BLKSECDISCARD yadong . qi
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: support BLKSECDISC... Stefano Garzarella
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: support BLKSECDISC... Michael S. Tsirkin
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: support BLKSECDISC... Stefan Hajnoczi