iomap patches for zoned XFS v1

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Hi all,

this series contains the iomap prep work to support zoned XFS.

The biggest changes are:

 - an option to reuse the ioend code for direct writes in addition to the
   current use for buffered writeback, which allows the file system to
   track completions on a per-bio basis instead of the current end_io
   callback which operates on the entire I/O.
   Note that it might make sense to split the ioend code from
   buffered-io.c into its own file with this.  Let me know what you think
   of that and I can include it in the next version
 - change of the writeback_ops so that the submit_bio call can be done by
   the file system.  Note that btrfs will also need this eventually when
   it starts using iomap
 - helpers to split ioend to the zone append queue_limits that plug
   into the previous item above.
 - a new ANON_WRITE flags for writes that don't have a block number
   assigned to them at the iomap level, leaving the file system to do
   that work in the submission handler.  Note that btrfs wants something
   similar also for compressed I/O, which should be able to reuse this,
   maybe with minor tweaks.
 - passing private data to a few more helper

The XFS changes to use this will be posted to the xfs list only to not
spam fsdevel too much.

Changes since RFC:
 - update Documentation/filesystems/iomap/
 - improve comments
 - make the iomap_split_ioend calling convention simpler and hopefully
   more cleasr
 - propagate bio_split errors
 - rename the flags argument to iomap_init_ioend
 - move more code to fs/iomap/ioend.c
 - refactor the ioend completion code a bit
 - replace the ZONE_APPEND flag with an ANON_WRITE flag




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