brd: rename XIP to DAX
authorMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:59:41 +0000 (15:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:56:04 +0000 (17:56 -0800)
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>
drivers/block/Kconfig
drivers/block/brd.c

index 014a1cfc41c51fe5d69f0d76a31607d1834ba953..1b8094d4d7af70f38e38bd9d3f5736a55f31dd82 100644 (file)
@@ -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
index c01b921b1b4a8a492188dee63c9ace3665aa2498..64ab4951e9d678f737423439bce5fce7b28f72fc 100644 (file)
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
         * Must use NOIO because we don't want to recurse back into the
         * block or filesystem layers from page reclaim.
         *
-        * Cannot support XIP and highmem, because our ->direct_access
-        * routine for XIP must return memory that is always addressable.
-        * If XIP was reworked to use pfns and kmap throughout, this
+        * Cannot support DAX and highmem, because our ->direct_access
+        * routine for DAX must return memory that is always addressable.
+        * If DAX was reworked to use pfns and kmap throughout, this
         * restriction might be able to be lifted.
         */
        gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO;
-#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
+#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
        gfp_flags |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
 #endif
        page = alloc_page(gfp_flags);
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static int brd_rw_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
        return err;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
 static long brd_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
                        void **kaddr, unsigned long *pfn, long size)
 {
@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ static long brd_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
         */
        return PAGE_SIZE;
 }
+#else
+#define brd_direct_access NULL
 #endif
 
 static int brd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
@@ -430,9 +432,7 @@ static const struct block_device_operations brd_fops = {
        .owner =                THIS_MODULE,
        .rw_page =              brd_rw_page,
        .ioctl =                brd_ioctl,
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
        .direct_access =        brd_direct_access,
-#endif
 };
 
 /*