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.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 7c46693a14d7..18873ea89e08 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3710,11 +3710,14 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
if (ext4_has_feature_inline_data(sb)) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot use DAX on a filesystem"
" that may contain inline data");
- goto failed_mount;
+ sbi->s_mount_opt &= ~EXT4_MOUNT_DAX;
}
err = bdev_dax_supported(sb, blocksize);
- if (err)
- goto failed_mount;
+ if (err) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+ "DAX unsupported by block device. Turning off DAX.");
+ sbi->s_mount_opt &= ~EXT4_MOUNT_DAX;
+ }
}
if (ext4_has_feature_encrypt(sb) && es->s_encryption_level) {
