Greg Kroah-Hartman | b244131 | 2017-11-01 15:07:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | # |
| 3 | # Block layer core configuration |
| 4 | # |
Jan Engelhardt | 16ed002 | 2007-07-10 12:24:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | menuconfig BLOCK |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | default y |
Omar Sandoval | 8845964 | 2016-09-17 08:38:44 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | select SBITMAP |
Bart Van Assche | 6a83e74 | 2016-11-02 10:09:51 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | select SRCU |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | help |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | Provide block layer support for the kernel. |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the |
| 14 | kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | If this option is disabled: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | - block device files will become unusable |
| 19 | - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since |
| 22 | they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities. |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | |
| 24 | Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and |
| 25 | suchlike. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | if BLOCK |
| 28 | |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | 90c699a | 2009-06-19 08:08:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | config LBDAF |
| 30 | bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files" |
Matthew Wilcox | e624386 | 2006-12-04 03:38:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | depends on !64BIT |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | db29a6b | 2009-04-21 09:27:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | default y |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | help |
Jens Axboe | b3a6ffe | 2008-12-12 09:51:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger. |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| 36 | This option is required to support the full capacity of large |
| 37 | (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device, |
| 38 | Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback. |
Jens Axboe | b3a6ffe | 2008-12-12 09:51:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | |
| 40 | This option also enables support for single files larger than |
| 41 | 2TB. |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 4d783b0 | 2009-01-06 15:16:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in |
| 44 | order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | db29a6b | 2009-04-21 09:27:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write |
| 46 | mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is |
| 47 | enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4. |
Theodore Ts'o | 4d783b0 | 2009-01-06 15:16:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | db29a6b | 2009-04-21 09:27:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | If unsure, say Y. |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
Christoph Hellwig | 72148ae | 2017-01-28 09:32:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | config BLK_SCSI_REQUEST |
| 54 | bool |
| 55 | |
Jens Axboe | 3d6392c | 2007-07-09 12:38:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | config BLK_DEV_BSG |
John Stoffel | 14d9fa3 | 2009-08-04 22:10:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | bool "Block layer SG support v4" |
| 58 | default y |
Christoph Hellwig | 72148ae | 2017-01-28 09:32:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST |
John Stoffel | 14d9fa3 | 2009-08-04 22:10:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | help |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support |
| 62 | for any block device. |
FUJITA Tomonori | 319a7b7 | 2007-07-17 12:22:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | |
Nick Andrew | ee86418 | 2008-04-21 09:51:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4 |
| 65 | can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs |
| 66 | with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response |
| 67 | protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial |
| 68 | Attached SCSI). |
| 69 | |
John Stoffel | 14d9fa3 | 2009-08-04 22:10:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly |
| 71 | access device serial numbers, etc. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | If unsure, say Y. |
Jens Axboe | 3d6392c | 2007-07-09 12:38:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | |
Mike Christie | aa387cc | 2011-07-31 22:05:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB |
| 76 | bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib" |
| 77 | default n |
| 78 | select BLK_DEV_BSG |
Christoph Hellwig | 72148ae | 2017-01-28 09:32:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST |
Mike Christie | aa387cc | 2011-07-31 22:05:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | help |
| 81 | Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not |
| 82 | normally need to manually enable this. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | If unsure, say N. |
| 85 | |
Martin K. Petersen | 7ba1ba1 | 2008-06-30 20:04:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY |
| 87 | bool "Block layer data integrity support" |
Martin K. Petersen | 2341c2f | 2014-09-26 19:20:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY |
Martin K. Petersen | 7ba1ba1 | 2008-06-30 20:04:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | ---help--- |
| 90 | Some storage devices allow extra information to be |
| 91 | stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer |
| 92 | data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by |
| 93 | filesystems to ensure better data integrity. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the |
| 96 | T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path |
| 97 | Protection. If in doubt, say N. |
| 98 | |
Hannes Reinecke | 6a0cb1b | 2016-10-18 15:40:33 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | config BLK_DEV_ZONED |
| 100 | bool "Zoned block device support" |
| 101 | ---help--- |
| 102 | Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables |
| 103 | support for ZAC/ZBC host-managed and host-aware zoned block devices. |
| 104 | |
| 105 | Say yes here if you have a ZAC or ZBC storage device. |
| 106 | |
Vivek Goyal | e43473b | 2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING |
| 108 | bool "Block layer bio throttling support" |
Kees Cook | 8e42e0a | 2012-10-23 13:01:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | depends on BLK_CGROUP=y |
Vivek Goyal | e43473b | 2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | default n |
| 111 | ---help--- |
| 112 | Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit |
| 113 | the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and |
| 114 | one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating |
| 115 | cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies. |
| 116 | |
| 117 | See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. |
| 118 | |
Shaohua Li | 327ffb9 | 2017-03-27 10:51:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW |
| 120 | bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 121 | depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING |
| 122 | default n |
| 123 | ---help--- |
| 124 | Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best |
| 125 | effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit |
| 126 | can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better |
| 127 | utilize disk resource. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. |
| 130 | |
Paul Gortmaker | 080506a | 2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER |
Cai Zhiyong | bab5541 | 2013-09-11 14:20:09 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | bool "Block device command line partition parser" |
| 133 | default n |
| 134 | ---help--- |
Paul Gortmaker | 080506a | 2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from |
| 136 | the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices |
| 137 | which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the |
| 138 | partitions on a block device. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information. |
Cai Zhiyong | bab5541 | 2013-09-11 14:20:09 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | |
Jens Axboe | 87760e5 | 2016-11-09 12:38:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | config BLK_WBT |
| 143 | bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling" |
| 144 | default n |
| 145 | ---help--- |
| 146 | Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered |
| 147 | background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having |
| 148 | less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done |
| 149 | dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in |
| 150 | the realtime performance of the disk. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | config BLK_WBT_SQ |
| 153 | bool "Single queue writeback throttling" |
| 154 | default n |
| 155 | depends on BLK_WBT |
| 156 | ---help--- |
| 157 | Enable writeback throttling by default on legacy single queue devices |
| 158 | |
| 159 | config BLK_WBT_MQ |
| 160 | bool "Multiqueue writeback throttling" |
| 161 | default y |
| 162 | depends on BLK_WBT |
| 163 | ---help--- |
| 164 | Enable writeback throttling by default on multiqueue devices. |
| 165 | Multiqueue currently doesn't have support for IO scheduling, |
| 166 | enabling this option is recommended. |
| 167 | |
Omar Sandoval | 400f73b | 2017-01-27 15:03:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | config BLK_DEBUG_FS |
| 169 | bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs" |
| 170 | default y |
| 171 | depends on DEBUG_FS |
| 172 | ---help--- |
| 173 | Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information |
| 174 | is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost |
| 175 | at runtime. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should |
| 178 | say Y here. |
| 179 | |
Scott Bauer | 455a7b2 | 2017-02-03 12:50:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | config BLK_SED_OPAL |
| 181 | bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs" |
| 182 | ---help--- |
| 183 | Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers. |
| 184 | Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock |
| 185 | Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol. |
| 186 | |
Al Viro | 9be96f3 | 2011-09-16 00:25:05 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | menu "Partition Types" |
| 188 | |
| 189 | source "block/partitions/Kconfig" |
| 190 | |
| 191 | endmenu |
| 192 | |
Linus Torvalds | 2b9e0aa | 2007-10-12 17:58:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | endif # BLOCK |
| 194 | |
Jens Axboe | 99874d5 | 2007-10-12 12:50:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | config BLOCK_COMPAT |
| 196 | bool |
Linus Torvalds | 2b9e0aa | 2007-10-12 17:58:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | depends on BLOCK && COMPAT |
Jens Axboe | 99874d5 | 2007-10-12 12:50:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | default y |
| 199 | |
Stephen Rothwell | 8ec2ef2 | 2016-09-19 15:50:16 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | config BLK_MQ_PCI |
| 201 | bool |
| 202 | depends on BLOCK && PCI |
| 203 | default y |
| 204 | |
Christoph Hellwig | 7347342 | 2017-02-05 18:15:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | config BLK_MQ_VIRTIO |
| 206 | bool |
| 207 | depends on BLOCK && VIRTIO |
| 208 | default y |
| 209 | |
Sagi Grimberg | 24c5dc6 | 2017-07-13 11:09:43 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | config BLK_MQ_RDMA |
| 211 | bool |
| 212 | depends on BLOCK && INFINIBAND |
| 213 | default y |
| 214 | |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 215 | source block/Kconfig.iosched |