On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 09:18 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 12:42:58PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> >
:
> Please write a helper along the lines of:
>
> error = blkdev_supports_dax(sb->s_bdev, sb->s_blocksize);
>
> and encapsulate all this, including the specific error messages in the
> helper (i.e. "Block device %s does not support DAX."). Then the rest
> of the filesystem code looks something like this:
>
> if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DAX) {
> error = blkdev_supports_dax(sb->s_bdev, sb->s_blocksize);
> if (error) {
> xfs_alert(mp,
> "DAX unsupported by block device. Turning off DAX.");
> mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_DAX;
> }
> }
>
> And each filesystem can choose to do what it wants with the error
> without having to care exactly why DAX is not supported.
Yes, I had this change in mind and was wondering if you are OK with it
since I am incline to keep the ext2/4 message style as majority rule. :)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/3/543
Assuming that's OK, I will make this change.
Thanks!
-Toshi
