Signed-off-by: Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 blockdev.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
index 79fbac8450..b44b9d660d 100644
--- a/blockdev.c
+++ b/blockdev.c
@@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ static void extract_common_blockdev_options(QemuOpts *opts, int *bdrv_flags,
         if ((aio = qemu_opt_get(opts, "aio")) != NULL) {
             if (!strcmp(aio, "native")) {
                 *bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO;
+            } else if (!strcmp(aio, "io_uring")) {
+                *bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_IO_URING;
             } else if (!strcmp(aio, "threads")) {
                 /* this is the default */
             } else {
@@ -4547,7 +4549,7 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_common_drive_opts = {
         },{
             .name = "aio",
             .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
-            .help = "host AIO implementation (threads, native)",
+            .help = "host AIO implementation (threads, native, io_uring)",
         },{
             .name = BDRV_OPT_CACHE_WB,
             .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
-- 
2.17.1