block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
If a block device supports the ->direct_access methods, bypass the normal DIO path and use DAX to go straight to memcpy() instead of allocating a DIO and a BIO. Includes support for the DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT flag in DAX, as is done in do_blockdev_direct_IO(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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