Ever since the conversion of DAX to the Xarray a RocksDB benchmark has
been encountering intermittent lockups. The backtraces always include
the filesystem-DAX PMD path, multi-order entries have been a source of
bugs in the past, and disabling the PMD path allows a test that fails in
minutes to run for an hour.

The regression has been bisected to "dax: Convert page fault handlers to
XArray", but little progress has been made on the root cause debug.
Unless / until root cause can be identified mark CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD
broken to preclude intermittent lockups. Reverting the Xarray conversion
also works, but that change is too big to backport. The implementation
is committed to Xarray at this point.

Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/capcyv4hwhpx-mkueqxwdtj7wcczcn4rv-l4jsnuwlgyl_ue...@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: b15cd800682f ("dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray")
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Robert Barror <robert.bar...@intel.com>
Reported-by: Seema Pandit <seema.pan...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
---
 fs/Kconfig |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index f1046cf6ad85..85eecd0d4c5d 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ config FS_DAX_PMD
        depends on FS_DAX
        depends on ZONE_DEVICE
        depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+       # intermittent lockups since commit b15cd800682f "dax: Convert
+       # page fault handlers to XArray"
+       depends on BROKEN
 
 # Selected by DAX drivers that do not expect filesystem DAX to support
 # get_user_pages() of DAX mappings. I.e. "limited" indicates no support

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