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13a65dfe8SJens Axboe#
23a65dfe8SJens Axboe# Block layer core configuration
33a65dfe8SJens Axboe#
416ed002fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig BLOCK
551d7513aSJens Axboe       bool "Enable the block layer" if EMBEDDED
69361401eSDavid Howells       default y
79361401eSDavid Howells       help
8ee86418dSNick Andrew	 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
99361401eSDavid Howells
10ee86418dSNick Andrew	 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
11ee86418dSNick Andrew	 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
12ee86418dSNick Andrew
13ee86418dSNick Andrew	 If this option is disabled:
14ee86418dSNick Andrew
15ee86418dSNick Andrew	   - block device files will become unusable
16ee86418dSNick Andrew	   - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
17ee86418dSNick Andrew
18ee86418dSNick Andrew	 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
19ee86418dSNick Andrew	 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
209361401eSDavid Howells
219361401eSDavid Howells	 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
229361401eSDavid Howells	 suchlike.
239361401eSDavid Howells
249361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK
259361401eSDavid Howells
263a65dfe8SJens Axboeconfig LBD
27b3a6ffe1SJens Axboe	bool "Support for large block devices and files"
28e6243863SMatthew Wilcox	depends on !64BIT
293a65dfe8SJens Axboe	help
30b3a6ffe1SJens Axboe	  Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
31ee86418dSNick Andrew
32ee86418dSNick Andrew	  This option is required to support the full capacity of large
33ee86418dSNick Andrew	  (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
34ee86418dSNick Andrew	  Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
35ee86418dSNick Andrew
36b3a6ffe1SJens Axboe	  This option also enables support for single files larger than
37b3a6ffe1SJens Axboe	  2TB.
38ee86418dSNick Andrew
394d783b09STheodore Ts'o	  The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
404d783b09STheodore Ts'o	  order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
414d783b09STheodore Ts'o	  enabled.    Otherwise, it will refuse to mount any filesystems
424d783b09STheodore Ts'o	  that use the huge_file feature, which is enabled by default
434d783b09STheodore Ts'o	  by mke2fs.ext4.   The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
444d783b09STheodore Ts'o
45ee86418dSNick Andrew	  If unsure, say N.
463a65dfe8SJens Axboe
472056a782SJens Axboeconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
482056a782SJens Axboe	bool "Support for tracing block io actions"
4909540e69SJens Axboe	depends on SYSFS
502056a782SJens Axboe	select RELAY
512056a782SJens Axboe	select DEBUG_FS
525f3ea37cSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	select TRACEPOINTS
532056a782SJens Axboe	help
54ee86418dSNick Andrew	  Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
552056a782SJens Axboe	  on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
562056a782SJens Axboe	  on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
57ee86418dSNick Andrew	  support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
582056a782SJens Axboe
5975ce6facSJens Axboe	  git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
602056a782SJens Axboe
61ee86418dSNick Andrew	  If unsure, say N.
62ee86418dSNick Andrew
633d6392cfSJens Axboeconfig BLK_DEV_BSG
64319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6580ed71ceSJames Bottomley	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
663d6392cfSJens Axboe	---help---
67319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
68319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  for any block device.
69319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori
70319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
71319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
72319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
73319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
74319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori	  Attached SCSI).
753d6392cfSJens Axboe
76ee86418dSNick Andrew	  If unsure, say N.
77ee86418dSNick Andrew
787ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersenconfig BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
797ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	bool "Block layer data integrity support"
807ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	---help---
817ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	Some storage devices allow extra information to be
827ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	stored/retrieved to help protect the data.  The block layer
837ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
847ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
857ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen
867ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
877ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
887ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen	Protection.  If in doubt, say N.
897ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen
902b9e0aaeSLinus Torvaldsendif # BLOCK
912b9e0aaeSLinus Torvalds
9299874d50SJens Axboeconfig BLOCK_COMPAT
9399874d50SJens Axboe	bool
942b9e0aaeSLinus Torvalds	depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
9599874d50SJens Axboe	default y
9699874d50SJens Axboe
973a65dfe8SJens Axboesource block/Kconfig.iosched
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