NFSv4/flexfiles: honor FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS in pg_get_mirror_count_write

The FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS flag lives on each lseg, so any fallback
decision made when there is no current lseg (e.g. between LAYOUTRETURN
and the next LAYOUTGET) cannot run the per-lseg check.

Introduce a sticky hdr-level ditto for FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS in
struct nfs4_flexfile_layout::flags (NFS4_FF_HDR_NO_IO_THRU_MDS bit),
set whenever ff_layout_alloc_lseg() parses an lseg with the flag.  The
bit is never cleared for the lifetime of the layout hdr; the server is
assumed to be consistent in its no-fallback policy per file.
kzalloc() in ff_layout_alloc_layout_hdr() zero-initializes the field.

Use the new ff_layout_hdr_no_fallback_to_mds() helper to gate
ff_layout_pg_get_mirror_count_write(): when pnfs_update_layout() returns
NULL (e.g. NFS_LAYOUT_BULK_RECALL, pnfs_layout_io_test_failed,
pnfs_layoutgets_blocked) the existing code unconditionally calls
nfs_pageio_reset_write_mds().  This is a source of unwanted WRITE to
MDS.  Fix it by checking NFS4_FF_HDR_NO_IO_THRU_MDS bit, and if set
surface -EAGAIN instead; the writepage-side caller (nfs_do_writepage()
for buffered, nfs_direct_write_reschedule() for O_DIRECT) then
redirties the request so writeback retries via pNFS.

Fixes: 260074cd8413 ("pNFS/flexfiles: Add support for FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com>

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