diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
index be376d91d058..baf41118660d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Shortcomings
 Even if the kernel or its modules are stored on a filesystem that supports
 DAX on a block device that supports DAX, they will still be copied into RAM.
 
+The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually
+mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
+
 Calling get_user_pages() on a range of user memory that has been mmaped
 from a DAX file will fail as there are no 'struct page' to describe
 those pages.  This problem is being worked on.  That means that O_DIRECT
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 5331497d5b25..ec35851e5b71 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ source "fs/nilfs2/Kconfig"
 config FS_DAX
 	bool "Direct Access (DAX) support"
 	depends on MMU
+	depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC)
 	help
 	  Direct Access (DAX) can be used on memory-backed block devices.
 	  If the block device supports DAX and the filesystem supports DAX,