bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental

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In order to avoid the experimental async registration interface to
be treated as new kernel ABI for common users, this patch makes it
as an experimental kernel configure BCACHE_ASYNC_REGISTRAION.

This interface is for extreme large cached data situation, to make sure
the bcache device can always created without the udev timeout issue. For
normal users the async or sync registration does not make difference.

In future when we decide to use the asynchronous registration as default
behavior, this experimental interface may be removed.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Coly Li 2020-05-27 12:01:55 +08:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig

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drivers/md/bcache/super.c

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