1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 23a65dfe8SJens Axboe# 33a65dfe8SJens Axboe# Block layer core configuration 43a65dfe8SJens Axboe# 516ed002fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig BLOCK 66a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT 79361401eSDavid Howells default y 8487c607dSChristoph Hellwig select FS_IOMAP 988459642SOmar Sandoval select SBITMAP 109361401eSDavid Howells help 11ee86418dSNick Andrew Provide block layer support for the kernel. 129361401eSDavid Howells 13ee86418dSNick Andrew Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the 14ee86418dSNick Andrew kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices. 15ee86418dSNick Andrew 16ee86418dSNick Andrew If this option is disabled: 17ee86418dSNick Andrew 18ee86418dSNick Andrew - block device files will become unusable 19ee86418dSNick Andrew - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. 20ee86418dSNick Andrew 21ee86418dSNick Andrew Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since 22ee86418dSNick Andrew they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities. 239361401eSDavid Howells 249361401eSDavid Howells Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and 259361401eSDavid Howells suchlike. 269361401eSDavid Howells 279361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 289361401eSDavid Howells 29fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwigconfig BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD 30fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig bool "Legacy autoloading support" 31451f0b6fSChristoph Hellwig default y 32fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig help 33fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig Enable loading modules and creating block device instances based on 34fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig accesses through their device special file. This is a historic Linux 35fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig feature and makes no sense in a udev world where device files are 36451f0b6fSChristoph Hellwig created on demand, but scripts that manually create device nodes and 37451f0b6fSChristoph Hellwig then call losetup might rely on this behavior. 38fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig 396f816b4bSTejun Heoconfig BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 406f816b4bSTejun Heo bool 416f816b4bSTejun Heo 421d156646STejun Heoconfig BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT 431d156646STejun Heo bool 441d156646STejun Heo 452c275afeSChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO 462c275afeSChristoph Hellwig bool 472c275afeSChristoph Hellwig 4878011042SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON 4978011042SChristoph Hellwig tristate 50ee86418dSNick Andrew 515ef16305SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_ICQ 525ef16305SChristoph Hellwig bool 535ef16305SChristoph Hellwig 54aa387cc8SMike Christieconfig BLK_DEV_BSGLIB 55aa387cc8SMike Christie bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib" 5678011042SChristoph Hellwig select BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON 57aa387cc8SMike Christie help 58aa387cc8SMike Christie Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not 59aa387cc8SMike Christie normally need to manually enable this. 60aa387cc8SMike Christie 61aa387cc8SMike Christie If unsure, say N. 62aa387cc8SMike Christie 637ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersenconfig BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 647ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen bool "Block layer data integrity support" 65a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 667ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Some storage devices allow extra information to be 677ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer 687ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by 697ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen filesystems to ensure better data integrity. 707ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen 717ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the 727ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path 737ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Protection. If in doubt, say N. 747ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen 75a754bd5fSHerbert Xuconfig BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY_T10 76a754bd5fSHerbert Xu tristate 77a754bd5fSHerbert Xu depends on BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 78a754bd5fSHerbert Xu select CRC_T10DIF 79a7d4383fSKeith Busch select CRC64_ROCKSOFT 80a754bd5fSHerbert Xu 816a0cb1bcSHannes Reineckeconfig BLK_DEV_ZONED 826a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke bool "Zoned block device support" 83b9aef63aSDamien Le Moal select MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE 84a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 856a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables 86240e6ee2SKeith Busch support for ZAC/ZBC/ZNS host-managed and host-aware zoned block 87240e6ee2SKeith Busch devices. 886a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke 89240e6ee2SKeith Busch Say yes here if you have a ZAC, ZBC, or ZNS storage device. 906a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke 91e43473b7SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 92e43473b7SVivek Goyal bool "Block layer bio throttling support" 93df252bdeSMasahiro Yamada depends on BLK_CGROUP 941d156646STejun Heo select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT 95a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 96e43473b7SVivek Goyal Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit 97e43473b7SVivek Goyal the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and 98e43473b7SVivek Goyal one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating 99e43473b7SVivek Goyal cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies. 100e43473b7SVivek Goyal 101da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 102e43473b7SVivek Goyal 103327ffb9bSShaohua Liconfig BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW 104327ffb9bSShaohua Li bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 105327ffb9bSShaohua Li depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 106a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 107327ffb9bSShaohua Li Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best 108327ffb9bSShaohua Li effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit 109327ffb9bSShaohua Li can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better 110327ffb9bSShaohua Li utilize disk resource. 111327ffb9bSShaohua Li 112327ffb9bSShaohua Li Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. 113327ffb9bSShaohua Li 11487760e5eSJens Axboeconfig BLK_WBT 11587760e5eSJens Axboe bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling" 116a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 11787760e5eSJens Axboe Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered 11887760e5eSJens Axboe background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having 11987760e5eSJens Axboe less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done 12087760e5eSJens Axboe dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in 12187760e5eSJens Axboe the realtime performance of the disk. 12287760e5eSJens Axboe 1235f6776baSBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_WBT_MQ 1245f6776baSBart Van Assche bool "Enable writeback throttling by default" 1255f6776baSBart Van Assche default y 1265f6776baSBart Van Assche depends on BLK_WBT 1275f6776baSBart Van Assche help 1285f6776baSBart Van Assche Enable writeback throttling by default for request-based block devices. 1295f6776baSBart Van Assche 130d7067512SJosef Bacikconfig BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY 131d7067512SJosef Bacik bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection" 132df252bdeSMasahiro Yamada depends on BLK_CGROUP 133a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 134d7067512SJosef Bacik Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling. 135d7067512SJosef Bacik The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below 136d7067512SJosef Bacik the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency 137d7067512SJosef Bacik target than the victimized group. 138d7067512SJosef Bacik 139d7067512SJosef Bacik Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. 140d7067512SJosef Bacik 141d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumarconfig BLK_CGROUP_FC_APPID 142d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar bool "Enable support to track FC I/O Traffic across cgroup applications" 143d2500a0cSMartin K. Petersen depends on BLK_CGROUP && NVME_FC 144d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar help 145d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar Enabling this option enables the support to track FC I/O traffic across 146d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar cgroup applications. It enables the Fabric and the storage targets to 147d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar identify, monitor, and handle FC traffic based on VM tags by inserting 148d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar application specific identification into the FC frame. 149d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar 1507caa4715STejun Heoconfig BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST 1517caa4715STejun Heo bool "Enable support for cost model based cgroup IO controller" 152df252bdeSMasahiro Yamada depends on BLK_CGROUP 1537caa4715STejun Heo select BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 154a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1557caa4715STejun Heo Enabling this option enables the .weight interface for cost 1567caa4715STejun Heo model based proportional IO control. The IO controller 1577caa4715STejun Heo distributes IO capacity between different groups based on 1587caa4715STejun Heo their share of the overall weight distribution. 1597caa4715STejun Heo 160556910e3SBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_CGROUP_IOPRIO 161556910e3SBart Van Assche bool "Cgroup I/O controller for assigning an I/O priority class" 162556910e3SBart Van Assche depends on BLK_CGROUP 163556910e3SBart Van Assche help 164556910e3SBart Van Assche Enable the .prio interface for assigning an I/O priority class to 165556910e3SBart Van Assche requests. The I/O priority class affects the order in which an I/O 166556910e3SBart Van Assche scheduler and block devices process requests. Only some I/O schedulers 167556910e3SBart Van Assche and some block devices support I/O priorities. 168556910e3SBart Van Assche 169400f73b2SOmar Sandovalconfig BLK_DEBUG_FS 170400f73b2SOmar Sandoval bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs" 171400f73b2SOmar Sandoval default y 172400f73b2SOmar Sandoval depends on DEBUG_FS 173a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 174400f73b2SOmar Sandoval Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information 175400f73b2SOmar Sandoval is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost 176400f73b2SOmar Sandoval at runtime. 177400f73b2SOmar Sandoval 178400f73b2SOmar Sandoval Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should 179400f73b2SOmar Sandoval say Y here. 180400f73b2SOmar Sandoval 1816a5ac984SBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_DEBUG_FS_ZONED 1826a5ac984SBart Van Assche bool 1836a5ac984SBart Van Assche default BLK_DEBUG_FS && BLK_DEV_ZONED 1846a5ac984SBart Van Assche 185455a7b23SScott Bauerconfig BLK_SED_OPAL 186455a7b23SScott Bauer bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs" 187*3bfeb612SGreg Joyce depends on KEYS 188*3bfeb612SGreg Joyce select PSERIES_PLPKS if PPC_PSERIES 189a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 190455a7b23SScott Bauer Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers. 191455a7b23SScott Bauer Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock 192455a7b23SScott Bauer Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol. 193455a7b23SScott Bauer 1941b262839SSatya Tangiralaconfig BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION 1951b262839SSatya Tangirala bool "Enable inline encryption support in block layer" 1961b262839SSatya Tangirala help 1971b262839SSatya Tangirala Build the blk-crypto subsystem. Enabling this lets the 1981b262839SSatya Tangirala block layer handle encryption, so users can take 1991b262839SSatya Tangirala advantage of inline encryption hardware if present. 2001b262839SSatya Tangirala 201488f6682SSatya Tangiralaconfig BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK 202488f6682SSatya Tangirala bool "Enable crypto API fallback for blk-crypto" 203488f6682SSatya Tangirala depends on BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION 204488f6682SSatya Tangirala select CRYPTO 205488f6682SSatya Tangirala select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 206488f6682SSatya Tangirala help 207488f6682SSatya Tangirala Enabling this lets the block layer handle inline encryption 208488f6682SSatya Tangirala by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline 209488f6682SSatya Tangirala encryption hardware is not present. 210488f6682SSatya Tangirala 2119be96f3fSAl Virosource "block/partitions/Kconfig" 2129be96f3fSAl Viro 2138ec2ef2bSStephen Rothwellconfig BLK_MQ_PCI 214c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada def_bool PCI 2158ec2ef2bSStephen Rothwell 21673473427SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_MQ_VIRTIO 21773473427SChristoph Hellwig bool 218c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada depends on VIRTIO 21973473427SChristoph Hellwig default y 22073473427SChristoph Hellwig 221bca6b067SBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_PM 222c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada def_bool PM 223bca6b067SBart Van Assche 224c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig# do not use in new code 225c66fd019SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED 226c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig bool 227c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig 228248c7933SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_MQ_STACKING 229248c7933SChristoph Hellwig bool 230248c7933SChristoph Hellwig 2318636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "block/Kconfig.iosched" 232c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada 233c50fca55SMasahiro Yamadaendif # BLOCK 234