Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # |
| 2 | # Block layer core configuration |
| 3 | # |
Jan Engelhardt | 16ed002 | 2007-07-10 12:24:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | menuconfig BLOCK |
Jens Axboe | 51d7513 | 2006-09-30 21:14:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | bool "Enable the block layer" if EMBEDDED |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | default y |
| 7 | help |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | Provide block layer support for the kernel. |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the |
| 11 | kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | If this option is disabled: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | - block device files will become unusable |
| 16 | - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since |
| 19 | they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities. |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| 21 | Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and |
| 22 | suchlike. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | if BLOCK |
| 25 | |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | 90c699a | 2009-06-19 08:08:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | config LBDAF |
| 27 | bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files" |
Matthew Wilcox | e624386 | 2006-12-04 03:38:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | depends on !64BIT |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | db29a6b | 2009-04-21 09:27:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | default y |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | help |
Jens Axboe | b3a6ffe | 2008-12-12 09:51:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger. |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
| 33 | This option is required to support the full capacity of large |
| 34 | (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device, |
| 35 | Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback. |
Jens Axboe | b3a6ffe | 2008-12-12 09:51:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | |
| 37 | This option also enables support for single files larger than |
| 38 | 2TB. |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 4d783b0 | 2009-01-06 15:16:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in |
| 41 | order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | db29a6b | 2009-04-21 09:27:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write |
| 43 | mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is |
| 44 | enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4. |
Theodore Ts'o | 4d783b0 | 2009-01-06 15:16:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | db29a6b | 2009-04-21 09:27:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | If unsure, say Y. |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |
Jens Axboe | 3d6392c | 2007-07-09 12:38:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | config BLK_DEV_BSG |
John Stoffel | 14d9fa3 | 2009-08-04 22:10:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | bool "Block layer SG support v4" |
| 52 | default y |
| 53 | help |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support |
| 55 | for any block device. |
FUJITA Tomonori | 319a7b7 | 2007-07-17 12:22:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4 |
| 58 | can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs |
| 59 | with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response |
| 60 | protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial |
| 61 | Attached SCSI). |
| 62 | |
John Stoffel | 14d9fa3 | 2009-08-04 22:10:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly |
| 64 | access device serial numbers, etc. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | If unsure, say Y. |
Jens Axboe | 3d6392c | 2007-07-09 12:38:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | |
Martin K. Petersen | 7ba1ba1 | 2008-06-30 20:04:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY |
| 69 | bool "Block layer data integrity support" |
| 70 | ---help--- |
| 71 | Some storage devices allow extra information to be |
| 72 | stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer |
| 73 | data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by |
| 74 | filesystems to ensure better data integrity. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the |
| 77 | T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path |
| 78 | Protection. If in doubt, say N. |
| 79 | |
Vivek Goyal | 31e4c28 | 2009-12-03 12:59:42 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | config BLK_CGROUP |
| 81 | bool |
| 82 | depends on CGROUPS |
| 83 | default n |
| 84 | ---help--- |
| 85 | Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common |
| 86 | cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling |
| 87 | policies. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and |
| 90 | control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) |
| 91 | to such task groups. |
| 92 | |
Vivek Goyal | 2868ef7 | 2009-12-03 12:59:48 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 93 | config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP |
| 94 | bool |
| 95 | depends on BLK_CGROUP |
| 96 | default n |
| 97 | ---help--- |
| 98 | Enable some debugging help. Currently it stores the cgroup path |
| 99 | in the blk group which can be used by cfq for tracing various |
| 100 | group related activity. |
| 101 | |
Linus Torvalds | 2b9e0aa | 2007-10-12 17:58:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | endif # BLOCK |
| 103 | |
Jens Axboe | 99874d5 | 2007-10-12 12:50:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | config BLOCK_COMPAT |
| 105 | bool |
Linus Torvalds | 2b9e0aa | 2007-10-12 17:58:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | depends on BLOCK && COMPAT |
Jens Axboe | 99874d5 | 2007-10-12 12:50:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | default y |
| 108 | |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | source block/Kconfig.iosched |