diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 014a1cfc41c51fe5d69f0d76a31607d1834ba953..1b8094d4d7af70f38e38bd9d3f5736a55f31dd82 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -393,14 +393,15 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
 	  The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
 	  what you are doing.
 
-config BLK_DEV_XIP
-	bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
-	depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
+config BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
+	bool "Support Direct Access (DAX) to RAM block devices"
+	depends on BLK_DEV_RAM && FS_DAX
 	default n
 	help
-	  Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
-	  top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and
-	  will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
+	  Support filesystems using DAX to access RAM block devices.  This
+	  avoids double-buffering data in the page cache before copying it
+	  to the block device.  Answering Y will slightly enlarge the kernel,
+	  and will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
 	  allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
 
 config CDROM_PKTCDVD
diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index c01b921b1b4a8a492188dee63c9ace3665aa2498..64ab4951e9d678f737423439bce5fce7b28f72fc 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
 	 * Must use NOIO because we don't want to recurse back into the
 	 * block or filesystem layers from page reclaim.
 	 *
-	 * Cannot support XIP and highmem, because our ->direct_access
-	 * routine for XIP must return memory that is always addressable.
-	 * If XIP was reworked to use pfns and kmap throughout, this
+	 * Cannot support DAX and highmem, because our ->direct_access
+	 * routine for DAX must return memory that is always addressable.
+	 * If DAX was reworked to use pfns and kmap throughout, this
 	 * restriction might be able to be lifted.
 	 */
 	gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO;
-#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
+#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
 	gfp_flags |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
 #endif
 	page = alloc_page(gfp_flags);
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static int brd_rw_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 	return err;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
 static long brd_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 			void **kaddr, unsigned long *pfn, long size)
 {
@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ static long brd_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 	 */
 	return PAGE_SIZE;
 }
+#else
+#define brd_direct_access NULL
 #endif
 
 static int brd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
@@ -430,9 +432,7 @@ static const struct block_device_operations brd_fops = {
 	.owner =		THIS_MODULE,
 	.rw_page =		brd_rw_page,
 	.ioctl =		brd_ioctl,
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
 	.direct_access =	brd_direct_access,
-#endif
 };
 
 /*