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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2017-05-08 10:55:27 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2017-05-08 10:55:27 -0700
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block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX
For configurations that do not enable DAX filesystems or drivers, do not require the DAX core to be built. Given that the 'direct_access' method has been removed from 'block_device_operations', we can also go ahead and remove the block-related dax helper functions from fs/block_dev.c to drivers/dax/super.c. This keeps dax details out of the block layer and lets the DAX core be built as a module in the FS_DAX=n case. Filesystems need to include dax.h to call bdev_dax_supported(). Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 83eab52fb3f6..b0e42b6a96b9 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ config FS_DAX
depends on MMU
depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC)
select FS_IOMAP
+ select DAX
help
Direct Access (DAX) can be used on memory-backed block devices.
If the block device supports DAX and the filesystem supports DAX,