On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 10:05 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

On Tue 10-05-16 10:23:57, Toshi Kani wrote:

quoted

blkdev_dax_capable() is similar to bdev_dax_supported(), but needs
to remain as a separate interface for checking dax capability of
a raw block device.

Rename and relocate blkdev_dax_capable() to keep them maintained
consistently, and call bdev_direct_access() for the dax capability
check.

...

quoted

+bool bdev_dax_capable(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+	struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
+	struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
+		.size = PAGE_SIZE,
+	};
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_DAX))
+		return false;

Frankly, I prefer the #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX and just compile the code out
when DAX is not enabled (like it was with blkdev_dax_capable()). That way
we don't grow the kernel for people who don't care about DAX.

When CONFIG_FS_DAX is not set, the rest of the code is optimized out.  So,
I think the code size is the same.

(gdb) disas bdev_dax_capable
Dump of assembler code for function bdev_dax_capable:
   0xffffffff81260d20 <+0>:     callq  0xffffffff81813c30 <__fentry__>
   0xffffffff81260d25 <+5>:     push   %rbp
   0xffffffff81260d26 <+6>:     xor    %eax,%eax
   0xffffffff81260d28 <+8>:     mov    %rsp,%rbp
   0xffffffff81260d2b <+11>:    pop    %rbp
   0xffffffff81260d2c <+12>:    retq   
End of assembler dump.

Thanks,
-Toshi