block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device
Add an internal helper and flag for setting whether a queue has
write back caching, or write through (or none). Add a sysfs file
to show this as well, and make it changeable from user space.
This will replace the (awkward) blk_queue_flush() interface that
drivers currently use to inform the block layer of write cache state
and capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
(cherry picked from commit
93e9d8e836cb1a9a58b33eb6643bf061c6119ef2)
Orabug:
25130845
Signed-off-by: Ashok Vairavan <ashok.vairavan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>