Merge tag 'statx-dioalign-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux

Pull STATX_DIOALIGN support from Eric Biggers:
 "Make statx() support reporting direct I/O (DIO) alignment information.

  This provides a generic interface for userspace programs to determine
  whether a file supports DIO, and if so with what alignment
  restrictions. Specifically, STATX_DIOALIGN works on block devices, and
  on regular files when their containing filesystem has implemented
  support.

  An interface like this has been requested for years, since the
  conditions for when DIO is supported in Linux have gotten increasingly
  complex over time. Today, DIO support and alignment requirements can
  be affected by various filesystem features such as multi-device
  support, data journalling, inline data, encryption, verity,
  compression, checkpoint disabling, log-structured mode, etc.

  Further complicating things, Linux v6.0 relaxed the traditional rule
  of DIO needing to be aligned to the block device's logical block size;
  now user buffers (but not file offsets) only need to be aligned to the
  DMA alignment.

  The approach of uplifting the XFS specific ioctl XFS_IOC_DIOINFO was
  discarded in favor of creating a clean new interface with statx().

  For more information, see the individual commits and the man page
  update[1]"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220722074229.148925-1-ebiggers@kernel.org [1]

* tag 'statx-dioalign-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
  xfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN
  f2fs: support STATX_DIOALIGN
  f2fs: simplify f2fs_force_buffered_io()
  f2fs: move f2fs_force_buffered_io() into file.c
  ext4: support STATX_DIOALIGN
  fscrypt: change fscrypt_dio_supported() to prepare for STATX_DIOALIGN
  vfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN on block devices
  statx: add direct I/O alignment information

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