dm thin: commit before gathering status

Commit outstanding metadata before returning the status for a dm thin
pool so that the numbers reported are as up-to-date as possible.

The commit is not performed if the device is suspended or if
the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG is supplied by userspace and passed to the target
through a new 'status_flags' parameter in the target's dm_status_fn.

The userspace dmsetup tool will support the --noflush flag with the
'dmsetup status' and 'dmsetup wait' commands from version 1.02.76
onwards.

Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
index 3ece4eee84cb..91e3a360f611 100644
--- a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ enum {
 #define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY     _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, struct dm_ioctl)
 
 #define DM_VERSION_MAJOR        4
-#define DM_VERSION_MINOR        22
-#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL   1
-#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA        "-ioctl (2012-06-01)"
+#define DM_VERSION_MINOR        23
+#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL   0
+#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA        "-ioctl (2012-07-25)"
 
 /* Status bits */
 #define DM_READONLY_FLAG        (1 << 0) /* In/Out */
@@ -307,6 +307,8 @@ enum {
 
 /*
  * Set this to suspend without flushing queued ios.
+ * Also disables flushing uncommitted changes in the thin target before
+ * generating statistics for DM_TABLE_STATUS and DM_DEV_WAIT.
  */
 #define DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG         (1 << 11) /* In */