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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#
2# Block layer core configuration
3#
4menuconfig BLOCK
5 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
6 default y
7 help
8 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
9
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.
20
21 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
22 suchlike.
23
24if BLOCK
25
26config LBDAF
27 bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
28 depends on !64BIT
29 default y
30 help
31 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
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.
36
37 This option also enables support for single files larger than
38 2TB.
39
40 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
41 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
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.
45
46 The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
47
48 If unsure, say Y.
49
50config BLK_DEV_BSG
51 bool "Block layer SG support v4"
52 default y
53 help
54 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
55 for any block device.
56
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
63 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
64 access device serial numbers, etc.
65
66 If unsure, say Y.
67
68config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
69 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
70 default n
71 select BLK_DEV_BSG
72 help
73 Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
74 normally need to manually enable this.
75
76 If unsure, say N.
77
78config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
79 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
80 select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
81 ---help---
82 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
83 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
84 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
85 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
86
87 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
88 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
89 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
90
91config BLK_DEV_DAX
92 bool "Block device DAX support"
93 depends on FS_DAX
94 depends on BROKEN
95 help
96 When DAX support is available (CONFIG_FS_DAX) raw block
97 devices can also support direct userspace access to the
98 storage capacity via MMAP(2) similar to a file on a
99 DAX-enabled filesystem. However, the DAX I/O-path disables
100 some standard I/O-statistics, and the MMAP(2) path has some
101 operational differences due to bypassing the page
102 cache. If in doubt, say N.
103
104config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
105 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
106 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
107 default n
108 ---help---
109 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
110 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
111 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
112 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
113
114 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
115
116config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
117 bool "Block device command line partition parser"
118 default n
119 ---help---
120 Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
121 the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices
122 which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
123 partitions on a block device.
124
125 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information.
126
127menu "Partition Types"
128
129source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
130
131endmenu
132
133endif # BLOCK
134
135config BLOCK_COMPAT
136 bool
137 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
138 default y
139
140source block/Kconfig.iosched