2 # Block layer core configuration
5 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
10 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
12 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
13 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
15 If this option is disabled:
17 - block device files will become unusable
18 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
20 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
21 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
23 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
29 bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
33 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
35 This option is required to support the full capacity of large
36 (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
37 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
39 This option also enables support for single files larger than
42 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
43 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
44 enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write
45 mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is
46 enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4.
48 The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
53 bool "Block layer SG support v4"
56 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
59 Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
60 can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
61 with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
62 protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
65 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
66 access device serial numbers, etc.
71 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
75 Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
76 normally need to manually enable this.
80 config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
81 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
82 select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
84 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
85 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
86 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
87 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
89 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
90 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
91 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
94 bool "Zoned block device support"
96 Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables
97 support for ZAC/ZBC host-managed and host-aware zoned block devices.
99 Say yes here if you have a ZAC or ZBC storage device.
101 config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
102 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
103 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
106 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
107 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
108 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
109 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
111 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
113 config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
114 bool "Block device command line partition parser"
117 Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
118 the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices
119 which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
120 partitions on a block device.
122 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information.
125 bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling"
128 Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered
129 background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having
130 less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done
131 dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in
132 the realtime performance of the disk.
135 bool "Single queue writeback throttling"
139 Enable writeback throttling by default on legacy single queue devices
142 bool "Multiqueue writeback throttling"
146 Enable writeback throttling by default on multiqueue devices.
147 Multiqueue currently doesn't have support for IO scheduling,
148 enabling this option is recommended.
150 menu "Partition Types"
152 source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
160 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
165 depends on BLOCK && PCI
168 source block/Kconfig.iosched