int64_t sector_num, int nb_sectors, QEMUIOVector *qiov);
int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_writev(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
int nb_sectors, QEMUIOVector *qiov);
+/*
+ * Efficiently zero a region of the disk image. Note that this is a regular
+ * I/O request like read or write and should have a reasonable size. This
+ * function is not suitable for zeroing the entire image in a single request
+ * because it may allocate memory for the entire region.
+ */
+int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_write_zeroes(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
+ int nb_sectors);
int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_is_allocated(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
int nb_sectors, int *pnum);
BlockDriverState *bdrv_find_backing_image(BlockDriverState *bs,