From 57f0f512b273f60d52568b8c6b77e17f5636edc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: André Fabian Silva Delgado Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:04:01 -0300 Subject: Initial import --- block/Kconfig | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 127 insertions(+) create mode 100644 block/Kconfig (limited to 'block/Kconfig') diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..161491d0a --- /dev/null +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +# +# Block layer core configuration +# +menuconfig BLOCK + bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT + default y + help + Provide block layer support for the kernel. + + Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the + kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices. + + If this option is disabled: + + - block device files will become unusable + - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. + + Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since + they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities. + + Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and + suchlike. + +if BLOCK + +config LBDAF + bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files" + depends on !64BIT + default y + help + Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger. + + This option is required to support the full capacity of large + (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device, + Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback. + + This option also enables support for single files larger than + 2TB. + + The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in + order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature + enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write + mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is + enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4. + + The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config BLK_DEV_BSG + bool "Block layer SG support v4" + default y + help + Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support + for any block device. + + Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4 + can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs + with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response + protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial + Attached SCSI). + + This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly + access device serial numbers, etc. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB + bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib" + default n + select BLK_DEV_BSG + help + Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not + normally need to manually enable this. + + If unsure, say N. + +config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY + bool "Block layer data integrity support" + select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY + ---help--- + Some storage devices allow extra information to be + stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer + data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by + filesystems to ensure better data integrity. + + Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the + T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path + Protection. If in doubt, say N. + +config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING + bool "Block layer bio throttling support" + depends on BLK_CGROUP=y + default n + ---help--- + Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit + the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and + one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating + cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies. + + See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. + +config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER + bool "Block device command line partition parser" + default n + ---help--- + Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from + the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices + which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the + partitions on a block device. + + See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information. + +menu "Partition Types" + +source "block/partitions/Kconfig" + +endmenu + +endif # BLOCK + +config BLOCK_COMPAT + bool + depends on BLOCK && COMPAT + default y + +source block/Kconfig.iosched -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf