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 888459642SOmar Sandoval select SBITMAP 96a83e74dSBart Van Assche select SRCU 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 29*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwigconfig BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD 30*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig bool "Legacy autoloading support" 31*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig help 32*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig Enable loading modules and creating block device instances based on 33*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig accesses through their device special file. This is a historic Linux 34*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig feature and makes no sense in a udev world where device files are 35*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig created on demand. 36*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig 37*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig Say N here unless booting or other functionality broke without it, in 38*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig which case you should also send a report to your distribution and 39*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig linux-block@vger.kernel.org. 40*fbdee71bSChristoph Hellwig 416f816b4bSTejun Heoconfig BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 426f816b4bSTejun Heo bool 436f816b4bSTejun Heo 441d156646STejun Heoconfig BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT 451d156646STejun Heo bool 461d156646STejun Heo 4778011042SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON 4878011042SChristoph Hellwig tristate 49ee86418dSNick Andrew 505ef16305SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLK_ICQ 515ef16305SChristoph Hellwig bool 525ef16305SChristoph Hellwig 53aa387cc8SMike Christieconfig BLK_DEV_BSGLIB 54aa387cc8SMike Christie bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib" 5578011042SChristoph Hellwig select BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON 56aa387cc8SMike Christie help 57aa387cc8SMike Christie Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not 58aa387cc8SMike Christie normally need to manually enable this. 59aa387cc8SMike Christie 60aa387cc8SMike Christie If unsure, say N. 61aa387cc8SMike Christie 627ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersenconfig BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 637ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen bool "Block layer data integrity support" 64a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 657ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Some storage devices allow extra information to be 667ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer 677ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by 687ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen filesystems to ensure better data integrity. 697ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen 707ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the 717ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path 727ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Protection. If in doubt, say N. 737ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen 74a754bd5fSHerbert Xuconfig BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY_T10 75a754bd5fSHerbert Xu tristate 76a754bd5fSHerbert Xu depends on BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 77a754bd5fSHerbert Xu select CRC_T10DIF 78a754bd5fSHerbert Xu 796a0cb1bcSHannes Reineckeconfig BLK_DEV_ZONED 806a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke bool "Zoned block device support" 81b9aef63aSDamien Le Moal select MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE 82a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 836a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables 84240e6ee2SKeith Busch support for ZAC/ZBC/ZNS host-managed and host-aware zoned block 85240e6ee2SKeith Busch devices. 866a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke 87240e6ee2SKeith Busch Say yes here if you have a ZAC, ZBC, or ZNS storage device. 886a0cb1bcSHannes Reinecke 89e43473b7SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 90e43473b7SVivek Goyal bool "Block layer bio throttling support" 91df252bdeSMasahiro Yamada depends on BLK_CGROUP 921d156646STejun Heo select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT 93a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 94e43473b7SVivek Goyal Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit 95e43473b7SVivek Goyal the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and 96e43473b7SVivek Goyal one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating 97e43473b7SVivek Goyal cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies. 98e43473b7SVivek Goyal 99da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 100e43473b7SVivek Goyal 101327ffb9bSShaohua Liconfig BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW 102327ffb9bSShaohua Li bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 103327ffb9bSShaohua Li depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 104a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 105327ffb9bSShaohua Li Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best 106327ffb9bSShaohua Li effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit 107327ffb9bSShaohua Li can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better 108327ffb9bSShaohua Li utilize disk resource. 109327ffb9bSShaohua Li 110327ffb9bSShaohua Li Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. 111327ffb9bSShaohua Li 11287760e5eSJens Axboeconfig BLK_WBT 11387760e5eSJens Axboe bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling" 114a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 11587760e5eSJens Axboe Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered 11687760e5eSJens Axboe background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having 11787760e5eSJens Axboe less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done 11887760e5eSJens Axboe dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in 11987760e5eSJens Axboe the realtime performance of the disk. 12087760e5eSJens Axboe 1215f6776baSBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_WBT_MQ 1225f6776baSBart Van Assche bool "Enable writeback throttling by default" 1235f6776baSBart Van Assche default y 1245f6776baSBart Van Assche depends on BLK_WBT 1255f6776baSBart Van Assche help 1265f6776baSBart Van Assche Enable writeback throttling by default for request-based block devices. 1275f6776baSBart Van Assche 128d7067512SJosef Bacikconfig BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY 129d7067512SJosef Bacik bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection" 130df252bdeSMasahiro Yamada depends on BLK_CGROUP 131a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 132d7067512SJosef Bacik Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling. 133d7067512SJosef Bacik The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below 134d7067512SJosef Bacik the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency 135d7067512SJosef Bacik target than the victimized group. 136d7067512SJosef Bacik 137d7067512SJosef Bacik Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. 138d7067512SJosef Bacik 139d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumarconfig BLK_CGROUP_FC_APPID 140d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar bool "Enable support to track FC I/O Traffic across cgroup applications" 141d2500a0cSMartin K. Petersen depends on BLK_CGROUP && NVME_FC 142d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar help 143d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar Enabling this option enables the support to track FC I/O traffic across 144d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar cgroup applications. It enables the Fabric and the storage targets to 145d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar identify, monitor, and handle FC traffic based on VM tags by inserting 146d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar application specific identification into the FC frame. 147d2bcbeabSMuneendra Kumar 1487caa4715STejun Heoconfig BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST 1497caa4715STejun Heo bool "Enable support for cost model based cgroup IO controller" 150df252bdeSMasahiro Yamada depends on BLK_CGROUP 151cd006509STejun Heo select BLK_RQ_IO_DATA_LEN 1527caa4715STejun Heo select BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 153a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1547caa4715STejun Heo Enabling this option enables the .weight interface for cost 1557caa4715STejun Heo model based proportional IO control. The IO controller 1567caa4715STejun Heo distributes IO capacity between different groups based on 1577caa4715STejun Heo their share of the overall weight distribution. 1587caa4715STejun Heo 159556910e3SBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_CGROUP_IOPRIO 160556910e3SBart Van Assche bool "Cgroup I/O controller for assigning an I/O priority class" 161556910e3SBart Van Assche depends on BLK_CGROUP 162556910e3SBart Van Assche help 163556910e3SBart Van Assche Enable the .prio interface for assigning an I/O priority class to 164556910e3SBart Van Assche requests. The I/O priority class affects the order in which an I/O 165556910e3SBart Van Assche scheduler and block devices process requests. Only some I/O schedulers 166556910e3SBart Van Assche and some block devices support I/O priorities. 167556910e3SBart Van Assche 168400f73b2SOmar Sandovalconfig BLK_DEBUG_FS 169400f73b2SOmar Sandoval bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs" 170400f73b2SOmar Sandoval default y 171400f73b2SOmar Sandoval depends on DEBUG_FS 172a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 173400f73b2SOmar Sandoval Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information 174400f73b2SOmar Sandoval is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost 175400f73b2SOmar Sandoval at runtime. 176400f73b2SOmar Sandoval 177400f73b2SOmar Sandoval Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should 178400f73b2SOmar Sandoval say Y here. 179400f73b2SOmar Sandoval 1806a5ac984SBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_DEBUG_FS_ZONED 1816a5ac984SBart Van Assche bool 1826a5ac984SBart Van Assche default BLK_DEBUG_FS && BLK_DEV_ZONED 1836a5ac984SBart Van Assche 184455a7b23SScott Bauerconfig BLK_SED_OPAL 185455a7b23SScott Bauer bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs" 186a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 187455a7b23SScott Bauer Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers. 188455a7b23SScott Bauer Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock 189455a7b23SScott Bauer Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol. 190455a7b23SScott Bauer 1911b262839SSatya Tangiralaconfig BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION 1921b262839SSatya Tangirala bool "Enable inline encryption support in block layer" 1931b262839SSatya Tangirala help 1941b262839SSatya Tangirala Build the blk-crypto subsystem. Enabling this lets the 1951b262839SSatya Tangirala block layer handle encryption, so users can take 1961b262839SSatya Tangirala advantage of inline encryption hardware if present. 1971b262839SSatya Tangirala 198488f6682SSatya Tangiralaconfig BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK 199488f6682SSatya Tangirala bool "Enable crypto API fallback for blk-crypto" 200488f6682SSatya Tangirala depends on BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION 201488f6682SSatya Tangirala select CRYPTO 202488f6682SSatya Tangirala select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 203488f6682SSatya Tangirala help 204488f6682SSatya Tangirala Enabling this lets the block layer handle inline encryption 205488f6682SSatya Tangirala by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline 206488f6682SSatya Tangirala encryption hardware is not present. 207488f6682SSatya Tangirala 2089be96f3fSAl Virosource "block/partitions/Kconfig" 2099be96f3fSAl Viro 21099874d50SJens Axboeconfig BLOCK_COMPAT 211c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada def_bool COMPAT 21299874d50SJens Axboe 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 22124c5dc66SSagi Grimbergconfig BLK_MQ_RDMA 22224c5dc66SSagi Grimberg bool 223c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada depends on INFINIBAND 22424c5dc66SSagi Grimberg default y 22524c5dc66SSagi Grimberg 226bca6b067SBart Van Asscheconfig BLK_PM 227c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada def_bool PM 228bca6b067SBart Van Assche 229c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig# do not use in new code 230c66fd019SChristoph Hellwigconfig BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED 231c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig bool 232c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig 2338636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "block/Kconfig.iosched" 234c50fca55SMasahiro Yamada 235c50fca55SMasahiro Yamadaendif # BLOCK 236