1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2# 3# Block layer core configuration 4# 5menuconfig BLOCK 6 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT 7 default y 8 select SBITMAP 9 select SRCU 10 help 11 Provide block layer support for the kernel. 12 13 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the 14 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices. 15 16 If this option is disabled: 17 18 - block device files will become unusable 19 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. 20 21 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since 22 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities. 23 24 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and 25 suchlike. 26 27if BLOCK 28 29config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 30 bool 31 32config BLK_SCSI_REQUEST 33 bool 34 35config BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT 36 bool 37 38config BLK_DEV_BSG 39 bool "Block layer SG support v4" 40 default y 41 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST 42 help 43 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support 44 for any block device. 45 46 Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4 47 can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs 48 with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response 49 protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial 50 Attached SCSI). 51 52 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly 53 access device serial numbers, etc. 54 55 If unsure, say Y. 56 57config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB 58 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib" 59 select BLK_DEV_BSG 60 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST 61 help 62 Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not 63 normally need to manually enable this. 64 65 If unsure, say N. 66 67config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 68 bool "Block layer data integrity support" 69 help 70 Some storage devices allow extra information to be 71 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer 72 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by 73 filesystems to ensure better data integrity. 74 75 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the 76 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path 77 Protection. If in doubt, say N. 78 79config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY_T10 80 tristate 81 depends on BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 82 select CRC_T10DIF 83 84config BLK_DEV_ZONED 85 bool "Zoned block device support" 86 select MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE 87 help 88 Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables 89 support for ZAC/ZBC/ZNS host-managed and host-aware zoned block 90 devices. 91 92 Say yes here if you have a ZAC, ZBC, or ZNS storage device. 93 94config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 95 bool "Block layer bio throttling support" 96 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y 97 select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT 98 help 99 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit 100 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and 101 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating 102 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies. 103 104 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 105 106config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW 107 bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 108 depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 109 help 110 Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best 111 effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit 112 can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better 113 utilize disk resource. 114 115 Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. 116 117config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER 118 bool "Block device command line partition parser" 119 help 120 Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from 121 the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices 122 which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the 123 partitions on a block device. 124 125 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst for more information. 126 127config BLK_WBT 128 bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling" 129 help 130 Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered 131 background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having 132 less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done 133 dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in 134 the realtime performance of the disk. 135 136config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY 137 bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection" 138 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y 139 help 140 Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling. 141 The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below 142 the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency 143 target than the victimized group. 144 145 Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday. 146 147config BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST 148 bool "Enable support for cost model based cgroup IO controller" 149 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y 150 select BLK_RQ_IO_DATA_LEN 151 select BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 152 help 153 Enabling this option enables the .weight interface for cost 154 model based proportional IO control. The IO controller 155 distributes IO capacity between different groups based on 156 their share of the overall weight distribution. 157 158config BLK_WBT_MQ 159 bool "Multiqueue writeback throttling" 160 default y 161 depends on BLK_WBT 162 help 163 Enable writeback throttling by default on multiqueue devices. 164 165config BLK_DEBUG_FS 166 bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs" 167 default y 168 depends on DEBUG_FS 169 help 170 Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information 171 is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost 172 at runtime. 173 174 Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should 175 say Y here. 176 177config BLK_DEBUG_FS_ZONED 178 bool 179 default BLK_DEBUG_FS && BLK_DEV_ZONED 180 181config BLK_SED_OPAL 182 bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs" 183 help 184 Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers. 185 Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock 186 Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol. 187 188config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION 189 bool "Enable inline encryption support in block layer" 190 help 191 Build the blk-crypto subsystem. Enabling this lets the 192 block layer handle encryption, so users can take 193 advantage of inline encryption hardware if present. 194 195config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK 196 bool "Enable crypto API fallback for blk-crypto" 197 depends on BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION 198 select CRYPTO 199 select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 200 help 201 Enabling this lets the block layer handle inline encryption 202 by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline 203 encryption hardware is not present. 204 205menu "Partition Types" 206 207source "block/partitions/Kconfig" 208 209endmenu 210 211endif # BLOCK 212 213config BLOCK_COMPAT 214 bool 215 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT 216 default y 217 218config BLK_MQ_PCI 219 bool 220 depends on BLOCK && PCI 221 default y 222 223config BLK_MQ_VIRTIO 224 bool 225 depends on BLOCK && VIRTIO 226 default y 227 228config BLK_MQ_RDMA 229 bool 230 depends on BLOCK && INFINIBAND 231 default y 232 233config BLK_PM 234 def_bool BLOCK && PM 235 236source "block/Kconfig.iosched" 237