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authorMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>2015-02-16 15:59:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-16 17:56:04 -0800
commita7a97fc9ff6c2fcec00feb34d9b87b94452b0b78 (patch)
tree02d70a62a1dab16d8eef056f704f2c5b9e4079a5 /drivers/block/Kconfig
parent923ae0ff9250430133b3310fe62c47538cf1cbc1 (diff)
downloadlinux-a7a97fc9ff6c2fcec00feb34d9b87b94452b0b78.tar.bz2
brd: rename XIP to DAX
Since this is relating to FS_XIP, not KERNEL_XIP, it should be called DAX instead of XIP. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 014a1cfc41c5..1b8094d4d7af 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -393,14 +393,15 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
what you are doing.
-config BLK_DEV_XIP
- bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
- depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
+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 XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
- top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and
- will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
+ 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