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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2#
3# Block layer core configuration
4#
5menuconfig BLOCK
6 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
7 default y
8 select SBITMAP
9 help
10 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
11
12 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
13 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
14
15 If this option is disabled:
16
17 - block device files will become unusable
18 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
19
20 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
21 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
22
23 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
24 suchlike.
25
26if BLOCK
27
28config BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
29 bool "Legacy autoloading support"
30 default y
31 help
32 Enable loading modules and creating block device instances based on
33 accesses through their device special file. This is a historic Linux
34 feature and makes no sense in a udev world where device files are
35 created on demand, but scripts that manually create device nodes and
36 then call losetup might rely on this behavior.
37
38config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
39 bool
40
41config BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT
42 bool
43
44config BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON
45 tristate
46
47config BLK_ICQ
48 bool
49
50config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
51 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
52 select BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON
53 help
54 Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
55 normally need to manually enable this.
56
57 If unsure, say N.
58
59config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
60 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
61 help
62 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
63 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
64 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
65 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
66
67 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
68 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
69 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
70
71config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY_T10
72 tristate
73 depends on BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
74 select CRC_T10DIF
75 select CRC64_ROCKSOFT
76
77config BLK_DEV_ZONED
78 bool "Zoned block device support"
79 select MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE
80 help
81 Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables
82 support for ZAC/ZBC/ZNS host-managed and host-aware zoned block
83 devices.
84
85 Say yes here if you have a ZAC, ZBC, or ZNS storage device.
86
87config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
88 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
89 depends on BLK_CGROUP
90 select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT
91 help
92 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
93 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
94 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
95 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
96
97 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
98
99config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
100 bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
101 depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
102 help
103 Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best
104 effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit
105 can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better
106 utilize disk resource.
107
108 Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
109
110config BLK_WBT
111 bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling"
112 help
113 Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered
114 background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having
115 less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done
116 dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in
117 the realtime performance of the disk.
118
119config BLK_WBT_MQ
120 bool "Enable writeback throttling by default"
121 default y
122 depends on BLK_WBT
123 help
124 Enable writeback throttling by default for request-based block devices.
125
126config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY
127 bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection"
128 depends on BLK_CGROUP
129 help
130 Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling.
131 The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below
132 the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency
133 target than the victimized group.
134
135 Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
136
137config BLK_CGROUP_FC_APPID
138 bool "Enable support to track FC I/O Traffic across cgroup applications"
139 depends on BLK_CGROUP && NVME_FC
140 help
141 Enabling this option enables the support to track FC I/O traffic across
142 cgroup applications. It enables the Fabric and the storage targets to
143 identify, monitor, and handle FC traffic based on VM tags by inserting
144 application specific identification into the FC frame.
145
146config BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST
147 bool "Enable support for cost model based cgroup IO controller"
148 depends on BLK_CGROUP
149 select BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
150 help
151 Enabling this option enables the .weight interface for cost
152 model based proportional IO control. The IO controller
153 distributes IO capacity between different groups based on
154 their share of the overall weight distribution.
155
156config BLK_CGROUP_IOPRIO
157 bool "Cgroup I/O controller for assigning an I/O priority class"
158 depends on BLK_CGROUP
159 help
160 Enable the .prio interface for assigning an I/O priority class to
161 requests. The I/O priority class affects the order in which an I/O
162 scheduler and block devices process requests. Only some I/O schedulers
163 and some block devices support I/O priorities.
164
165config BLK_DEBUG_FS
166 bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs"
167 default y
168 depends on DEBUG_FS
169 help
170 Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information
171 is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost
172 at runtime.
173
174 Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should
175 say Y here.
176
177config BLK_DEBUG_FS_ZONED
178 bool
179 default BLK_DEBUG_FS && BLK_DEV_ZONED
180
181config BLK_SED_OPAL
182 bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs"
183 help
184 Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers.
185 Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock
186 Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol.
187
188config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION
189 bool "Enable inline encryption support in block layer"
190 help
191 Build the blk-crypto subsystem. Enabling this lets the
192 block layer handle encryption, so users can take
193 advantage of inline encryption hardware if present.
194
195config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK
196 bool "Enable crypto API fallback for blk-crypto"
197 depends on BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION
198 select CRYPTO
199 select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
200 help
201 Enabling this lets the block layer handle inline encryption
202 by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline
203 encryption hardware is not present.
204
205source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
206
207config BLOCK_COMPAT
208 def_bool COMPAT
209
210config BLK_MQ_PCI
211 def_bool PCI
212
213config BLK_MQ_VIRTIO
214 bool
215 depends on VIRTIO
216 default y
217
218config BLK_MQ_RDMA
219 bool
220 depends on INFINIBAND
221 default y
222
223config BLK_PM
224 def_bool PM
225
226# do not use in new code
227config BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED
228 bool
229
230config BLK_MQ_STACKING
231 bool
232
233source "block/Kconfig.iosched"
234
235endif # BLOCK
1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2#
3# Block layer core configuration
4#
5menuconfig BLOCK
6 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
7 default y
8 select SBITMAP
9 select SRCU
10 help
11 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
12
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.
23
24 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
25 suchlike.
26
27if BLOCK
28
29config LBDAF
30 bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
31 depends on !64BIT
32 default y
33 help
34 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
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.
39
40 This option also enables support for single files larger than
41 2TB.
42
43 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
44 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
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.
48
49 The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
50
51 If unsure, say Y.
52
53config BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
54 bool
55
56config BLK_DEV_BSG
57 bool "Block layer SG support v4"
58 default y
59 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
60 help
61 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
62 for any block device.
63
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
70 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
71 access device serial numbers, etc.
72
73 If unsure, say Y.
74
75config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
76 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
77 default n
78 select BLK_DEV_BSG
79 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
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
86config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
87 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
88 select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
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
99config 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
107config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
108 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
109 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
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
119config 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
131config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
132 bool "Block device command line partition parser"
133 default n
134 ---help---
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.
141
142config 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
152config 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
159config 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
168config 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
180config 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
187menu "Partition Types"
188
189source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
190
191endmenu
192
193endif # BLOCK
194
195config BLOCK_COMPAT
196 bool
197 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
198 default y
199
200config BLK_MQ_PCI
201 bool
202 depends on BLOCK && PCI
203 default y
204
205config BLK_MQ_VIRTIO
206 bool
207 depends on BLOCK && VIRTIO
208 default y
209
210config BLK_MQ_RDMA
211 bool
212 depends on BLOCK && INFINIBAND
213 default y
214
215source block/Kconfig.iosched