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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>2015-02-16 15:59:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-16 17:56:04 -0800
commit9c3ce9ec58716733232b97771b10f31901caf62e (patch)
tree25cc2bebbbc248d97f71262a542c7ee0e96411c0 /Documentation/filesystems
parent97443aa809a142b1e6db2ccfb046c3a962907204 (diff)
downloadlinux-9c3ce9ec58716733232b97771b10f31901caf62e.tar.gz
ext2: get rid of most mentions of XIP in ext2
To help people transition, accept the 'xip' mount option (and report it in
/proc/mounts), but print a message encouraging people to switch over to
the 'dax' option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
index 67639f905f10..b9714569e472 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ minixdf				Makes `df' act like Minix.
 check=none, nocheck	(*)	Don't do extra checking of bitmaps on mount
 				(check=normal and check=strict options removed)
 
+dax				Use direct access (no page cache).  See
+				Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt.
+
 debug				Extra debugging information is sent to the
 				kernel syslog.  Useful for developers.
 
@@ -56,8 +59,6 @@ noacl				Don't support POSIX ACLs.
 
 nobh				Do not attach buffer_heads to file pagecache.
 
-xip				Use execute in place (no caching) if possible
-
 grpquota,noquota,quota,usrquota	Quota options are silently ignored by ext2.