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2025-06-25doc: Remove misleading reference to brd in dax.rstDaniel Palmer1-1/+0
brd hasn't supported DAX for a long time but dax.rst still suggests it as an example of how to write a DAX supporting block driver. Remove the reference, confuse less people. Fixes: 7a862fbbdec6 ("brd: remove dax support") Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610-fixdasrstbrd20250610-v1-1-4abe3b7f381a@sony.com
2025-03-18dcssblk: mark DAX broken, remove FS_DAX_LIMITED supportDan Williams1-1/+0
The dcssblk driver has long needed special case supoprt to enable limited dax operation, so called CONFIG_FS_DAX_LIMITED. This mode works around the incomplete support for ZONE_DEVICE on s390 by forgoing the ability of dax-mapped pages to support GUP. Now, pending cleanups to fsdax that fix its reference counting [1] depend on the ability of all dax drivers to supply ZONE_DEVICE pages. To allow that work to move forward, dax support needs to be paused for dcssblk until ZONE_DEVICE support arrives. That work has been known for a few years [2], and the removal of "pte_devmap" requirements [3] makes the conversion easier. For now, place the support behind CONFIG_BROKEN, and remove PFN_SPECIAL (dcssblk was the only user). Link: http://lore.kernel.org/cover.9f0e45d52f5cff58807831b6b867084d0b14b61c.1725941415.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com [1] Link: http://lore.kernel.org/20210820210318.187742e8@thinkpad/ [2] Link: http://lore.kernel.org/4511465a4f8429f45e2ac70d2e65dc5e1df1eb47.1725941415.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com [3] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/33eef2379c0d240f40cc15453fad2df1a4ae34c8.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18Documentation: Fix typosBjorn Helgaas1-1/+1
Fix typos in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-16Documentation/filesystem/dax: update DAX description on erofslihongnan1-3/+3
Add missing erofs fsdax description since fsdax has been supported on erofs from Linux 5.15. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308034139.93748-1-hongnan.li@linux.alibaba.com Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: lihongnan <hongnan.lhn@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
2021-12-14Documentation/filesystem/dax: DAX on virtiofsJeffle Xu1-2/+18
Record DAX on virtiofs and the semantic difference with that on ext4 and xfs. Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2021-06-04docs: convert dax.txt to rstIgor Matheus Andrade Torrente1-0/+291
Change the file extension and add the rst constructs to integrate this doc to the documentation infrastructure and take advantage of rst features. Signed-off-by: Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210531130515.10309-1-igormtorrente@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>