diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 01d1de838896..715f8f2029b2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -415,13 +415,16 @@ struct flex_groups {
 #define EXT4_VERITY_FL			0x00100000 /* Verity protected inode */
 #define EXT4_EA_INODE_FL	        0x00200000 /* Inode used for large EA */
 /* 0x00400000 was formerly EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL */
+
+#define EXT4_DAX_FL			0x01000000 /* Inode is DAX */
+
 #define EXT4_INLINE_DATA_FL		0x10000000 /* Inode has inline data. */
 #define EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL		0x20000000 /* Create with parents projid */
 #define EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL		0x40000000 /* Casefolded file */
 #define EXT4_RESERVED_FL		0x80000000 /* reserved for ext4 lib */
 
-#define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x705BDFFF /* User visible flags */
-#define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE		0x604BC0FF /* User modifiable flags */
+#define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x715BDFFF /* User visible flags */
+#define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE		0x614BC0FF /* User modifiable flags */
 
 /* Flags we can manipulate with through EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR */
 #define EXT4_FL_XFLAG_VISIBLE		(EXT4_SYNC_FL | \
@@ -429,14 +432,16 @@ struct flex_groups {
 					 EXT4_APPEND_FL | \
 					 EXT4_NODUMP_FL | \
 					 EXT4_NOATIME_FL | \
-					 EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL)
+					 EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL | \
+					 EXT4_DAX_FL)
 
 /* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */
 #define EXT4_FL_INHERITED (EXT4_SECRM_FL | EXT4_UNRM_FL | EXT4_COMPR_FL |\
 			   EXT4_SYNC_FL | EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL |\
 			   EXT4_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\
 			   EXT4_NOTAIL_FL | EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL |\
-			   EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL | EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL)
+			   EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL | EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL |\
+			   EXT4_DAX_FL)
 
 /* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */
 #define EXT4_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT4_TOPDIR_FL | EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL |\
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 140b1930e2f4..105cf04f7940 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4400,6 +4400,8 @@ int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 
 static bool ext4_should_enable_dax(struct inode *inode)
 {
+	unsigned int flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags;
+
 	if (test_opt2(inode->i_sb, DAX_NEVER))
 		return false;
 	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
@@ -4418,7 +4420,7 @@ static bool ext4_should_enable_dax(struct inode *inode)
 	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DAX_ALWAYS))
 		return true;
 
-	return false;
+	return flags & EXT4_DAX_FL;
 }
 
 void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode, bool init)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 145083e8cd1e..6996a5c3e101 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -528,12 +528,15 @@ static inline __u32 ext4_iflags_to_xflags(unsigned long iflags)
 		xflags |= FS_XFLAG_NOATIME;
 	if (iflags & EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL)
 		xflags |= FS_XFLAG_PROJINHERIT;
+	if (iflags & EXT4_DAX_FL)
+		xflags |= FS_XFLAG_DAX;
 	return xflags;
 }
 
 #define EXT4_SUPPORTED_FS_XFLAGS (FS_XFLAG_SYNC | FS_XFLAG_IMMUTABLE | \
 				  FS_XFLAG_APPEND | FS_XFLAG_NODUMP | \
-				  FS_XFLAG_NOATIME | FS_XFLAG_PROJINHERIT)
+				  FS_XFLAG_NOATIME | FS_XFLAG_PROJINHERIT | \
+				  FS_XFLAG_DAX)
 
 /* Transfer xflags flags to internal */
 static inline unsigned long ext4_xflags_to_iflags(__u32 xflags)
@@ -552,6 +555,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ext4_xflags_to_iflags(__u32 xflags)
 		iflags |= EXT4_NOATIME_FL;
 	if (xflags & FS_XFLAG_PROJINHERIT)
 		iflags |= EXT4_PROJINHERIT_FL;
+	if (xflags & FS_XFLAG_DAX)
+		iflags |= EXT4_DAX_FL;
 
 	return iflags;
 }
@@ -802,6 +807,21 @@ static int ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
 	return error;
 }
 
+static void ext4_dax_dontcache(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		return;
+
+	if (test_opt2(inode->i_sb, DAX_NEVER) ||
+	    test_opt(inode->i_sb, DAX_ALWAYS))
+		return;
+
+	if (((ei->i_flags ^ flags) & EXT4_DAX_FL) == EXT4_DAX_FL)
+		d_mark_dontcache(inode);
+}
+
 long ext4_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
@@ -1267,6 +1287,9 @@ long ext4_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 			return err;
 
 		inode_lock(inode);
+
+		ext4_dax_dontcache(inode, flags);
+
 		ext4_fill_fsxattr(inode, &old_fa);
 		err = vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check(inode, &old_fa, &fa);
 		if (err)
