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ext4: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:04:07 +0000 (17:04 -0800)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:50:53 +0000 (16:50 -0800)
commit24f3478d664b1eaa6f8860d3aa521aebe51b2a62
tree1ceedfefe30a1550d06a954685de5acedae37d70
parent785a3fab4adbf91b2189c928a59ae219c54ba95e
ext4: auto disable dax instead of failing mount

Bring the ext4 filesystem in line with xfs that only warns and continues
when the "-o dax" option is specified to mount and the backing device
does not support dax. This is in preparation for removing dax support
from devices that do not enable get_user_pages() operations on dax
mappings. In other words 'gup' support is required and configurations
that were using so called 'page-less' dax will be converted back to
using the page cache.

Removing the broken 'page-less' dax support is a pre-requisite for
removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" warning when mounting a filesystem in dax
mode.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
fs/ext4/super.c