diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
index 2a8d638544a7..f9f24ec69c27 100644
--- a/block/blk-lib.c
+++ b/block/blk-lib.c
@@ -282,14 +282,18 @@ static int __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(struct block_device *bdev,
  * @nr_sects:	number of sectors to write
  * @gfp_mask:	memory allocation flags (for bio_alloc)
  * @biop:	pointer to anchor bio
- * @discard:	discard flag
+ * @flags:	controls detailed behavior
  *
  * Description:
- *  Generate and issue number of bios with zerofiled pages.
+ *  Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly
+ *  writing zeroes to the device.
+ *
+ *  If a device is using logical block provisioning, the underlying space will
+ *  not be released if %flags contains BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP.
  */
 int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct bio **biop,
-		bool discard)
+		unsigned flags)
 {
 	int ret;
 	int bi_size = 0;
@@ -337,28 +341,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blkdev_issue_zeroout);
  * @sector:	start sector
  * @nr_sects:	number of sectors to write
  * @gfp_mask:	memory allocation flags (for bio_alloc)
- * @discard:	whether to discard the block range
+ * @flags:	controls detailed behavior
  *
  * Description:
- *  Zero-fill a block range.  If the discard flag is set and the block
- *  device guarantees that subsequent READ operations to the block range
- *  in question will return zeroes, the blocks will be discarded. Should
- *  the discard request fail, if the discard flag is not set, or if
- *  discard_zeroes_data is not supported, this function will resort to
- *  zeroing the blocks manually, thus provisioning (allocating,
- *  anchoring) them. If the block device supports WRITE ZEROES or WRITE SAME
- *  command(s), blkdev_issue_zeroout() will use it to optimize the process of
- *  clearing the block range. Otherwise the zeroing will be performed
- *  using regular WRITE calls.
+ *  Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly
+ *  writing zeroes to the device.  See __blkdev_issue_zeroout() for the
+ *  valid values for %flags.
  */
 int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
-			 sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, bool discard)
+		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned flags)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct bio *bio = NULL;
 	struct blk_plug plug;
 
-	if (discard) {
+	if (!(flags & BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP)) {
 		if (!blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
 				BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO))
 			return 0;
@@ -366,7 +363,7 @@ int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 	ret = __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
-			&bio, discard);
+			&bio, flags);
 	if (ret == 0 && bio) {
 		ret = submit_bio_wait(bio);
 		bio_put(bio);
diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 7b88820b93d9..8ea00a41be01 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static int blk_ioctl_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, start, end);
 
 	return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9, GFP_KERNEL,
-				    false);
+			BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP);
 }
 
 static int put_ushort(unsigned long arg, unsigned short val)
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
index aa6bf9692eff..dc9a6dcd431c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
@@ -1499,19 +1499,22 @@ int drbd_issue_discard_or_zero_out(struct drbd_device *device, sector_t start, u
 		tmp = start + granularity - sector_div(tmp, granularity);
 
 		nr = tmp - start;
-		err |= blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start, nr, GFP_NOIO, 0);
+		err |= blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start, nr, GFP_NOIO,
+				BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP);
 		nr_sectors -= nr;
 		start = tmp;
 	}
 	while (nr_sectors >= granularity) {
 		nr = min_t(sector_t, nr_sectors, max_discard_sectors);
-		err |= blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start, nr, GFP_NOIO, 0);
+		err |= blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start, nr, GFP_NOIO,
+				BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP);
 		nr_sectors -= nr;
 		start += nr;
 	}
  zero_out:
 	if (nr_sectors) {
-		err |= blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start, nr_sectors, GFP_NOIO, 0);
+		err |= blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start, nr_sectors, GFP_NOIO,
+				BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP);
 	}
 	return err != 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd.c b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd.c
index 27623f2bfe6b..de266cc99397 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static void nvmet_execute_write_zeroes(struct nvmet_req *req)
 		(req->ns->blksize_shift - 9)) + 1;
 
 	if (__blkdev_issue_zeroout(req->ns->bdev, sector, nr_sector,
-				GFP_KERNEL, &bio, true))
+				GFP_KERNEL, &bio, 0))
 		status = NVME_SC_INTERNAL | NVME_SC_DNR;
 
 	if (bio) {
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index f2d59f143ef4..2f704c3a816f 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -2105,7 +2105,7 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t start,
 	case FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE:
 	case FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE:
 		error = blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9,
-					    GFP_KERNEL, false);
+					    GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP);
 		break;
 	case FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE:
 		/* Only punch if the device can do zeroing discard. */
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index de622d4282a6..2bfbcd726047 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ int __dax_zero_page_range(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 		sector_t start_sector = dax.sector + (offset >> 9);
 
 		return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start_sector,
-				length >> 9, GFP_NOFS, true);
+				length >> 9, GFP_NOFS, 0);
 	} else {
 		if (dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax) < 0)
 			return PTR_ERR(dax.addr);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
index 8b75dcea5966..142bbbe06114 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ xfs_zero_extent(
 	return blkdev_issue_zeroout(xfs_find_bdev_for_inode(VFS_I(ip)),
 		block << (mp->m_super->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
 		count_fsb << (mp->m_super->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
-		GFP_NOFS, true);
+		GFP_NOFS, 0);
 }
 
 int
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index a2dc6b390d48..e7513ce3dbde 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1337,23 +1337,27 @@ static inline struct request *blk_map_queue_find_tag(struct blk_queue_tag *bqt,
 	return bqt->tag_index[tag];
 }
 
+extern int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *, gfp_t, sector_t *);
+extern int blkdev_issue_write_same(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
+		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct page *page);
 
 #define BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE	(1 << 0)	/* issue a secure erase */
 #define BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO	(1 << 1)	/* must reliably zero data */
 
-extern int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *, gfp_t, sector_t *);
 extern int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned long flags);
 extern int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, int flags,
 		struct bio **biop);
-extern int blkdev_issue_write_same(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
-		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct page *page);
+
+#define BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP	(1 << 0)  /* do not free blocks */
+
 extern int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct bio **biop,
-		bool discard);
+		unsigned flags);
 extern int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
-		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, bool discard);
+		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned flags);
+
 static inline int sb_issue_discard(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block,
 		sector_t nr_blocks, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned long flags)
 {
@@ -1367,7 +1371,7 @@ static inline int sb_issue_zeroout(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block,
 	return blkdev_issue_zeroout(sb->s_bdev,
 				    block << (sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
 				    nr_blocks << (sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
-				    gfp_mask, true);
+				    gfp_mask, 0);
 }
 
 extern int blk_verify_command(unsigned char *cmd, fmode_t has_write_perm);
