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/drivers/md/dm.h b/drivers/md/dm.h
index b7dacd5..52eef49 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.h
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
#define DM_SUSPEND_NOFLUSH_FLAG (1 << 1)
/*
+ * Status feature flags
+ */
+#define DM_STATUS_NOFLUSH_FLAG (1 << 0)
+
+/*
* Type of table and mapped_device's mempool
*/
#define DM_TYPE_NONE 0