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>
diff --git a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
index 3ece4ee..91e3a36 100644
--- a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@
#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 @@
/*
* 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 */