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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2017-10-23 10:24:45 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2017-11-14 16:49:06 -0800
commit7a862fbbdec665190c5ef298c0c6ec9f3915cf45 (patch)
tree78f3f86aa6545576fbcfb4188169f484865b0fed /drivers/block/Kconfig
parent66a86cc10945648cf506ef314b98deeb7af06419 (diff)
downloadlinux-7a862fbbdec665190c5ef298c0c6ec9f3915cf45.tar.bz2
brd: remove dax support
DAX support in brd is awkward because its backing page frames are distinct from the ones provided by pmem, dcssblk, or axonram. We need pfn_t_devmap() entries to fully support DAX, and the limited DAX support for pfn_t_special() page frames is not interesting for brd when pmem is already a superset of brd. Lastly, brd is the only dax capable driver that may sleep in its ->direct_access() implementation. So it causes a global burden with no net gain of kernel functionality. For all these reasons, remove DAX support. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 2dfe99b328f8..da8bf0268ade 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_SX8
config BLK_DEV_RAM
tristate "RAM block device support"
- select DAX if BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
---help---
Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
@@ -333,17 +332,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
what you are doing.
-config BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
- bool "Support Direct Access (DAX) to RAM block devices"
- depends on BLK_DEV_RAM && FS_DAX
- default n
- help
- Support filesystems using DAX to access RAM block devices. This
- avoids double-buffering data in the page cache before copying it
- to the block device. Answering Y will slightly enlarge the kernel,
- and will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
- allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
-
config CDROM_PKTCDVD
tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)"
depends on !UML