block: add ioctl to read the disk sequence number
Add a new BLKGETDISKSEQ ioctl which retrieves the disk sequence number from the genhd structure. # ./getdiskseq /dev/loop* /dev/loop0: 13 /dev/loop0p1: 13 /dev/loop0p2: 13 /dev/loop0p3: 13 /dev/loop1: 14 /dev/loop1p1: 14 /dev/loop1p2: 14 /dev/loop2: 5 /dev/loop3: 6 Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712230530.29323-4-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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