diff --git a/fs/nfsd/Kconfig b/fs/nfsd/Kconfig
index a0b77fc1bd3944e9f966705518d4138cd2e4f0e3..eb70d91b255b4a180df16cd071fcf04f72ed8ec2 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/nfsd/Kconfig
@@ -84,12 +84,17 @@ config NFSD_V4
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
 config NFSD_PNFS
-	bool "NFSv4.1 server support for Parallel NFS (pNFS)"
+	bool
+
+config NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT
+	bool "NFSv4.1 server support for pNFS block layouts"
 	depends on NFSD_V4
+	select NFSD_PNFS
 	help
-	  This option enables support for the parallel NFS features of the
-	  minor version 1 of the NFSv4 protocol (RFC5661) in the kernel's NFS
-	  server.
+	  This option enables support for the exporting pNFS block layouts
+	  in the kernel's NFS server. The pNFS block layout enables NFS
+	  clients to directly perform I/O to block devices accesible to both
+	  the server and the clients.  See RFC 5663 for more details.
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/Makefile b/fs/nfsd/Makefile
index 9a6028e120c68bce8adf15456b39382eab3b6a7c..679cdc6efee819bec16a84aca3ac5fbb3c40ed92 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/Makefile
+++ b/fs/nfsd/Makefile
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ nfsd-$(CONFIG_NFSD_V3)	+= nfs3proc.o nfs3xdr.o
 nfsd-$(CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL) += nfs3acl.o
 nfsd-$(CONFIG_NFSD_V4)	+= nfs4proc.o nfs4xdr.o nfs4state.o nfs4idmap.o \
 			   nfs4acl.o nfs4callback.o nfs4recover.o
-nfsd-$(CONFIG_NFSD_PNFS) += nfs4layouts.o blocklayout.o blocklayoutxdr.o
+nfsd-$(CONFIG_NFSD_PNFS) += nfs4layouts.o
+nfsd-$(CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT) += blocklayout.o blocklayoutxdr.o
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c
index ce2d010d3b170627c82b281c11e206bd97109365..4e4def77ebc7350d5f333f76050da939f85ffe52 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ static const struct nfsd4_callback_ops nfsd4_cb_layout_ops;
 static const struct lock_manager_operations nfsd4_layouts_lm_ops;
 
 const struct nfsd4_layout_ops *nfsd4_layout_ops[LAYOUT_TYPE_MAX] =  {
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT
 	[LAYOUT_BLOCK_VOLUME]	= &bl_layout_ops,
+#endif
 };
 
 /* pNFS device ID to export fsid mapping */
@@ -121,10 +123,12 @@ void nfsd4_setup_layout_type(struct svc_export *exp)
 	if (!(exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_PNFS))
 		return;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT
 	if (sb->s_export_op->get_uuid &&
 	    sb->s_export_op->map_blocks &&
 	    sb->s_export_op->commit_blocks)
 		exp->ex_layout_type = LAYOUT_BLOCK_VOLUME;
+#endif
 }
 
 static void
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/pnfs.h b/fs/nfsd/pnfs.h
index d4c4453674c60d5b98120f1209030ba103dbe671..ff50bfa1f76fb742af46d52c19fcedf3367d3ded 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/pnfs.h
+++ b/fs/nfsd/pnfs.h
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ struct nfsd4_layout_ops {
 };
 
 extern const struct nfsd4_layout_ops *nfsd4_layout_ops[];
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT
 extern const struct nfsd4_layout_ops bl_layout_ops;
+#endif
 
 __be32 nfsd4_preprocess_layout_stateid(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
 		struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate, stateid_t *stateid,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/Makefile b/fs/xfs/Makefile
index f64639176670b2228ac532607c0454d4b6e5a784..d68b62a765920ae527637a556fa6b58e40cfea37 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/xfs/Makefile
@@ -121,4 +121,4 @@ xfs-$(CONFIG_XFS_RT)		+= xfs_rtalloc.o
 xfs-$(CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL)	+= xfs_acl.o
 xfs-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL)		+= xfs_sysctl.o
 xfs-$(CONFIG_COMPAT)		+= xfs_ioctl32.o
-xfs-$(CONFIG_NFSD_PNFS)		+= xfs_pnfs.o
+xfs-$(CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT)	+= xfs_pnfs.o
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c
index 652cd3c5b58c1cac1562239c9c644a19dbe588b7..0492b82281f3f10bf6ed7b166ea7096b1ccccbc3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ const struct export_operations xfs_export_operations = {
 	.fh_to_parent		= xfs_fs_fh_to_parent,
 	.get_parent		= xfs_fs_get_parent,
 	.commit_metadata	= xfs_fs_nfs_commit_metadata,
-#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_PNFS
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT
 	.get_uuid		= xfs_fs_get_uuid,
 	.map_blocks		= xfs_fs_map_blocks,
 	.commit_blocks		= xfs_fs_commit_blocks,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.h
index 8147ac1088203b285bb8ebd6462c00d0c916abc1..d85529ca299e5fa34da076daea58007ad472a21b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef _XFS_PNFS_H
 #define _XFS_PNFS_H 1
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_PNFS
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_BLOCKLAYOUT
 int xfs_fs_get_uuid(struct super_block *sb, u8 *buf, u32 *len, u64 *offset);
 int xfs_fs_map_blocks(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, u64 length,
 		struct iomap *iomap, bool write, u32 *device_generation);