diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 415c2803c0c9a26488cd38a5f6a68ba961393316..4e09b6ff5b493403d4e51be0b4fee2d99643e276 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1215,7 +1215,10 @@ static int __clone_and_map_discard(struct clone_info *ci)
 		if (!ti->num_discard_requests)
 			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-		len = min(ci->sector_count, max_io_len_target_boundary(ci->sector, ti));
+		if (!ti->split_discard_requests)
+			len = min(ci->sector_count, max_io_len_target_boundary(ci->sector, ti));
+		else
+			len = min(ci->sector_count, max_io_len(ci->sector, ti));
 
 		__issue_target_requests(ci, ti, ti->num_discard_requests, len);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index b19c1e189a6841576e1f4c148bc696ae1993d862..8bdbbfce759aff0f38ad77c32c6ef20f0ae09463 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ struct dm_target {
 	 */
 	unsigned discards_supported:1;
 
+	/*
+	 * Set if the target required discard request to be split
+	 * on max_io_len boundary.
+	 */
+	unsigned split_discard_requests:1;
+
 	/*
 	 * Set if this target does not return zeroes on discarded blocks.
 	 */