RE: + ext2-get-rid-of-most-mentions-of-xip-in-ext2.patch added to -mm tree

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Ugh ... this works better from my linux.intel.com address ...

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From: Jan Kara [mailto:jack@xxxxxxx] 
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Subject: Re: + ext2-get-rid-of-most-mentions-of-xip-in-ext2.patch added to -mm tree

On Mon 12-01-15 15:11:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> diff -puN fs/ext2/ext2.h~ext2-get-rid-of-most-mentions-of-xip-in-ext2 fs/ext2/ext2.h
> --- a/fs/ext2/ext2.h~ext2-get-rid-of-most-mentions-of-xip-in-ext2
> +++ a/fs/ext2/ext2.h
> @@ -380,14 +380,15 @@ struct ext2_inode {
>  #define EXT2_MOUNT_NO_UID32		0x000200  /* Disable 32-bit UIDs */
>  #define EXT2_MOUNT_XATTR_USER		0x004000  /* Extended user attributes */
>  #define EXT2_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL		0x008000  /* POSIX Access Control Lists */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
> -#define EXT2_MOUNT_XIP			0x010000  /* Execute in place */
> -#else
> -#define EXT2_MOUNT_XIP			0
> -#endif
> +#define EXT2_MOUNT_XIP			0x010000  /* Obsolete, use DAX */
>  #define EXT2_MOUNT_USRQUOTA		0x020000  /* user quota */
>  #define EXT2_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA		0x040000  /* group quota */
>  #define EXT2_MOUNT_RESERVATION		0x080000  /* Preallocation */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
> +#define EXT2_MOUNT_DAX			0x100000  /* Direct Access */
> +#else
> +#define EXT2_MOUNT_DAX			0
> +#endif
  Why do you define EXT2_MOUNT_DAX differently depending on CONFIG_FS_DAX?
  That seems unnecessary...

That's copied from the original XIP code.  I think the intent is to make the XIP/DAX code disappear from the module, rather than being dead code cluttering up the object file.

...
> diff -puN fs/ext2/super.c~ext2-get-rid-of-most-mentions-of-xip-in-ext2 fs/ext2/super.c
> --- a/fs/ext2/super.c~ext2-get-rid-of-most-mentions-of-xip-in-ext2
> +++ a/fs/ext2/super.c
> @@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ static int ext2_show_options(struct seq_
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
>  	if (sbi->s_mount_opt & EXT2_MOUNT_XIP)
>  		seq_puts(seq, ",xip");
> +	if (sbi->s_mount_opt & EXT2_MOUNT_DAX)
> +		seq_puts(seq, ",dax");
>  #endif
>  
>  	if (!test_opt(sb, RESERVATION))
  So if someone mounts filesystem with -o xip, /proc/mounts will show both
'xip' and 'dax'. OK, probably makes sense.

Yeah, I thought that was the best migration path; somebody might have a script that's checking for 'xip' in /proc/mounts.
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