On Wed, Apr 04 2018 at 5:54am -0400,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Building device mapper with CONFIG_DAX=m now results in a link error:
>
> drivers/md/dm.o: In function `dm_put_table_device':
> dm.c:(.text+0x33c): undefined reference to `put_dax'
> drivers/md/dm.o: In function `cleanup_mapped_device':
> dm.c:(.text+0x1054): undefined reference to `kill_dax'
> dm.c:(.text+0x105c): undefined reference to `put_dax'
> drivers/md/dm.o: In function `dm_get_table_device':
> dm.c:(.text+0x2744): undefined reference to `dax_get_by_host'
> drivers/md/dm-table.o: In function `device_dax_write_cache_enabled':
> dm-table.c:(.text+0x1030): undefined reference to `dax_write_cache_enabled'
> drivers/md/dm-table.o: In function `dm_table_set_restrictions':
> dm-table.c:(.text+0x29b8): undefined reference to `dax_write_cache'
>
> This adds a dependency that prevents the invalid configuration, allowing
> a built-in device mapper only if DAX is either built-in as well, or
> completely disabled.
>
> Fixes: 4de1c562f7e9 ("dax, dm: allow device-mapper to operate without dax support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> The regression only showed up in linux-next at the start of the merge
> window. Any idea what happened?
> ---
> drivers/md/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> index 49287135b86c..5e5a47c5ff82 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
>
> config BLK_DEV_DM
> tristate "Device mapper support"
> + depends on DAX || DAX=n
> select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
> ---help---
> Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
> --
> 2.9.0
>
Seems fine, CONFIG_DAX=m was an oversight in commit 4de1c562f7e9
Dan, do you want to just fold this into that original commit? Either
way, please feel free to pick this up.
Thanks Arnd.
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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