ext4: add DAX functionality

This is a port of the DAX functionality found in the current version of
ext2.

[matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com: heavily tweaked]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remap_pages went away]
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@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: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
index ebcd97f03654..be376d91d058 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ or a write()) work correctly.
 
 These filesystems may be used for inspiration:
 - ext2: the second extended filesystem, see Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
+- ext4: the fourth extended filesystem, see Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
 
 
 Shortcomings
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 919a3293aaa4..6c0108eb0137 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -386,6 +386,10 @@ max_dir_size_kb=n	This limits the size of directories so that any
 i_version               Enable 64-bit inode version support. This option is
                         off by default.
 
+dax                     Use direct access (no page cache).  See
+                        Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt.  Note that
+                        this option is incompatible with data=journal.
+
 Data Mode
 =========
 There are 3 different data modes: