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This ioctl shrinks a given length (aligned to sections) from end of the
main area. Any cursegs and valid blocks will be moved out before
invalidating the range.

This feature can be used for adjusting partition sizes online.

History of the patch:

Sahitya Tummala:
 - Add this ioctl for f2fs_compat_ioctl() as well.
 - Fix debugfs status to reflect the online resize changes.
 - Fix potential race between online resize path and allocate new data
   block path or gc path.

Others:
 - Rename some identifiers.
 - Add some error handling branches.
 - Clear sbi->next_victim_seg[BG_GC/FG_GC] in shrinking range.
 - Implement this interface as ext4's, and change the parameter from shrunk
bytes to new block count of F2FS.
 - During resizing, force to empty sit_journal and forbid adding new
   entries to it, in order to avoid invalid segno in journal after resize.
 - Reduce sbi->user_block_count before resize starts.
 - Commit the updated superblock first, and then update in...