block: introduce REQ_FLUSH flag

SCSI-ml needs a way to mark a request as flush request in
q->prepare_flush_fn because it needs to identify them later (e.g. in
q->request_fn or prep_rq_fn).

queue_flush sets REQ_HARDBARRIER in rq->cmd_flags however the block
layer also sends normal REQ_TYPE_FS requests with REQ_HARDBARRIER. So
SCSI-ml can't use REQ_HARDBARRIER to identify flush requests.

We could change the block layer to clear REQ_HARDBARRIER bit before
sending non flush requests to the lower layers. However, intorudcing
the new flag looks cleaner (surely easier).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
Cc: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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