1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Block device driver configuration 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6afd44034SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MD 71da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)" 8afd44034SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device. 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Required for RAID and logical volume management. 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13afd44034SJan Engelhardtif MD 14afd44034SJan Engelhardt 151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_MD 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID support" 17c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 18925c86a1SChristoph Hellwig select BUFFER_HEAD 196c0f5898SNeilBrown # BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD requirement should be removed 206c0f5898SNeilBrown # after relevant mdadm enhancements - to make "names=yes" 216c0f5898SNeilBrown # the default - are widely available. 226c0f5898SNeilBrown select BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD 23a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds logical block device. This can be used to simply append one 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller, you do not need to say Y here. 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 356f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 40c27474acSYu Kuaiconfig MD_BITMAP 41c27474acSYu Kuai bool "MD RAID bitmap support" 42c27474acSYu Kuai default y 43c27474acSYu Kuai depends on BLK_DEV_MD 44c27474acSYu Kuai help 45c27474acSYu Kuai If you say Y here, support for the write intent bitmap will be 46c27474acSYu Kuai enabled. The bitmap can be used to optimize resync speed after power 47c27474acSYu Kuai failure or readding a disk, limiting it to recorded dirty sectors in 48c27474acSYu Kuai bitmap. 49c27474acSYu Kuai 50c27474acSYu Kuai This feature can be added to existing MD array or MD array can be 51c27474acSYu Kuai created with bitmap via mdadm(8). 52c27474acSYu Kuai 53c27474acSYu Kuai If unsure, say Y. 54c27474acSYu Kuai 555ab829f1SYu Kuaiconfig MD_LLBITMAP 565ab829f1SYu Kuai bool "MD RAID lockless bitmap support" 575ab829f1SYu Kuai depends on BLK_DEV_MD 585ab829f1SYu Kuai help 595ab829f1SYu Kuai If you say Y here, support for the lockless write intent bitmap will 605ab829f1SYu Kuai be enabled. 615ab829f1SYu Kuai 625ab829f1SYu Kuai Note, this is an experimental feature. 635ab829f1SYu Kuai 645ab829f1SYu Kuai If unsure, say N. 655ab829f1SYu Kuai 66a364092aSArjan van de Venconfig MD_AUTODETECT 67a364092aSArjan van de Ven bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot" 68ce52aebdSAlan Jenkins depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y 69a364092aSArjan van de Ven default y 70a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 71a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid 72a364092aSArjan van de Ven arrays as part of its boot process. 73a364092aSArjan van de Ven 74a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause 75a364092aSArjan van de Ven a several-second delay in the boot time due to various 76a364092aSArjan van de Ven synchronisation steps that are part of this step. 77a364092aSArjan van de Ven 78a364092aSArjan van de Ven If unsure, say Y. 79a364092aSArjan van de Ven 80a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwigconfig MD_BITMAP_FILE 810ae1c9d3SChristoph Hellwig bool "MD bitmap file support (deprecated)" 82a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig default y 83c27474acSYu Kuai depends on MD_BITMAP 84a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig help 85a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig If you say Y here, support for write intent bitmaps in files on an 86a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig external file system is enabled. This is an alternative to the internal 87a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig bitmaps near the MD superblock, and very problematic code that abuses 88a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig various kernel APIs and can only work with files on a file system not 89a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig actually sitting on the MD device. 90a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig 91127186cfSYu Kuaiconfig MD_LINEAR 92127186cfSYu Kuai tristate "Linear (append) mode" 93127186cfSYu Kuai depends on BLK_DEV_MD 94127186cfSYu Kuai help 95127186cfSYu Kuai If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 96127186cfSYu Kuai use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 97127186cfSYu Kuai partitions by simply appending one to the other. 98127186cfSYu Kuai 99127186cfSYu Kuai To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 100127186cfSYu Kuai will be called linear. 101127186cfSYu Kuai 102127186cfSYu Kuai If unsure, say Y. 103127186cfSYu Kuai 1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID0 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 107a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1166f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called raid0. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID1 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 127a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds drives. 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1386f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID10 14708fb730cSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 14808fb730cSNeilBrown depends on BLK_DEV_MD 149a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 1514d2554d0SJustin Piszcz mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds layout. 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be used). 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds of redundancy and performance. 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1614f6cce39SSeongJae Park https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16516a53eccSNeilBrownconfig MD_RAID456 16616a53eccSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 168f5e70d0fSDavid Woodhouse select RAID6_PQ 169b261d222SEric Biggers select CRC32 1709bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1719bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_XOR 172ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_PQ 173ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 174a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the available parity distribution methods. 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18316a53eccSNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 18416a53eccSNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 18516a53eccSNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 18616a53eccSNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 18716a53eccSNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 18816a53eccSNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 18916a53eccSNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 19016a53eccSNeilBrown 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1936f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19616a53eccSNeilBrown If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 19816a53eccSNeilBrown will be called raid456. 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2028e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodriguesconfig MD_CLUSTER 203f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang tristate "Cluster Support for MD" 204c27474acSYu Kuai select MD_BITMAP 2058e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on BLK_DEV_MD 2068e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on DLM 2078e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues default n 208a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2098e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and 2108e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all 2118e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously. 2128e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 2138e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the 214f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10 215f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang (limited support). 2168e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 2178e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues If unsure, say N. 2188e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 219cafe5635SKent Overstreetsource "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 220cafe5635SKent Overstreet 2212995fa78SMikulas Patockaconfig BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 2226341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2232995fa78SMikulas Patocka 2241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_DM 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Device mapper support" 226c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 2272995fa78SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 228248c7933SChristoph Hellwig select BLK_MQ_STACKING 229976431b0SDan Williams depends on DAX || DAX=n 230a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds called dm-mod. 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 243cc109201SBryn Reevesconfig DM_DEBUG 2446341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Device mapper debugging support" 2450149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 246a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 247cc109201SBryn Reeves Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 248cc109201SBryn Reeves 249cc109201SBryn Reeves If unsure, say N. 250cc109201SBryn Reeves 25195d402f0SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_BUFIO 25295d402f0SMikulas Patocka tristate 253d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 254a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 25595d402f0SMikulas Patocka This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 25695d402f0SMikulas Patocka as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 25795d402f0SMikulas Patocka delayed writes. 25895d402f0SMikulas Patocka 2592e8ed711SJoe Thornberconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 2602e8ed711SJoe Thornber bool "Block manager locking" 2612e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on DM_BUFIO 262a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2632e8ed711SJoe Thornber Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues. 2642e8ed711SJoe Thornber 2652e8ed711SJoe Thornber If unsure, say N. 2662e8ed711SJoe Thornber 26786bad0c7SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING 26886bad0c7SMikulas Patocka bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders" 2692e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 27086bad0c7SMikulas Patocka select STACKTRACE 271a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 27286bad0c7SMikulas Patocka Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the 27386bad0c7SMikulas Patocka block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching. 27486bad0c7SMikulas Patocka 27586bad0c7SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 2763f068040SMike Snitzer 2774f81a417SMike Snitzerconfig DM_BIO_PRISON 2784f81a417SMike Snitzer tristate 279d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 280a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2814f81a417SMike Snitzer Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 2824f81a417SMike Snitzer including thin provisioning. 2834f81a417SMike Snitzer 284991d9fa0SJoe Thornbersource "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 285991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 28618a5bf27SScott Bauerconfig DM_UNSTRIPED 28718a5bf27SScott Bauer tristate "Unstriped target" 28818a5bf27SScott Bauer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 289a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 29018a5bf27SScott Bauer Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW 29118a5bf27SScott Bauer RAID0 or dm-striped target. 29218a5bf27SScott Bauer 2931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_CRYPT 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Crypt target support" 2950149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 29627f5411aSDmitry Baryshkov depends on (ENCRYPTED_KEYS || ENCRYPTED_KEYS=n) 297363880c4SAhmad Fatoum depends on (TRUSTED_KEYS || TRUSTED_KEYS=n) 298f656fa40SEric Biggers select CRC32 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 3003263263fSHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_CBC 301a1a262b6SArd Biesheuvel select CRYPTO_ESSIV 302ba59e59bSEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_MD5 # needed by lmk IV mode 303a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration. 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 308cf352487SLoic Pefferkorn For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see: 3096ed443c0SBaruch Siach <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt> 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called dm-crypt. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_SNAPSHOT 3170149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Snapshot target" 3180149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 31955494bf2SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 320a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3214d2554d0SJustin Piszcz Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 323991d9fa0SJoe Thornberconfig DM_THIN_PROVISIONING 324d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Thin provisioning target" 325d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 326991d9fa0SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 3274f81a417SMike Snitzer select DM_BIO_PRISON 328a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 329991d9fa0SJoe Thornber Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store. 330991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 331c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE 332c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 333c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 334c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber default n 335c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 336c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 337a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 338c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by 339c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance 340c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the 341c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted, 342c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes. 343c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber 34466a63635SJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE_SMQ 34566a63635SJoe Thornber tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 34666a63635SJoe Thornber depends on DM_CACHE 34766a63635SJoe Thornber default y 348a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 34966a63635SJoe Thornber A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits 35066a63635SJoe Thornber to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted. 35166a63635SJoe Thornber This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises 35266a63635SJoe Thornber reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise 35366a63635SJoe Thornber of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased 35466a63635SJoe Thornber adaptability in the face of changing workloads. 35566a63635SJoe Thornber 35648debafeSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_WRITECACHE 35748debafeSMikulas Patocka tristate "Writecache target" 35848debafeSMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 359a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 36048debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD. 36148debafeSMikulas Patocka It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely 36248debafeSMikulas Patocka low commit latency. 36348debafeSMikulas Patocka 36448debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed 36548debafeSMikulas Patocka to be cached in standard RAM. 36648debafeSMikulas Patocka 367d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_EBS 368d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen tristate "Emulated block size target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3691c277e50SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLK_DEV_DM && !HIGHMEM 370d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen select DM_BUFIO 371d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen help 372d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen dm-ebs emulates smaller logical block size on backing devices 373d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen with larger ones (e.g. 512 byte sectors on 4K native disks). 374d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen 375eec40579SJoe Thornberconfig DM_ERA 376eec40579SJoe Thornber tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 377eec40579SJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 378eec40579SJoe Thornber default n 379eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 380eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 381a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 382eec40579SJoe Thornber dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 383eec40579SJoe Thornber over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 384eec40579SJoe Thornber vendor snapshots. 385eec40579SJoe Thornber 3867431b783SNikos Tsironisconfig DM_CLONE 3877431b783SNikos Tsironis tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3887431b783SNikos Tsironis depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3897431b783SNikos Tsironis default n 3907431b783SNikos Tsironis select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 391a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3927431b783SNikos Tsironis dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source 3937431b783SNikos Tsironis device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is 3947431b783SNikos Tsironis visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the 3957431b783SNikos Tsironis destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user 3967431b783SNikos Tsironis I/O. 3977431b783SNikos Tsironis 3987431b783SNikos Tsironis If unsure, say N. 3997431b783SNikos Tsironis 4001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MIRROR 4010149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Mirror target" 4020149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 403a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4075442851eSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_LOG_USERSPACE 4085442851eSMikulas Patocka tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 4095442851eSMikulas Patocka depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 4105442851eSMikulas Patocka select CONNECTOR 411a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4125442851eSMikulas Patocka The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 4135442851eSMikulas Patocka relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 4145442851eSMikulas Patocka which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 4155442851eSMikulas Patocka shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 4165442851eSMikulas Patocka by leveraging this framework. 4175442851eSMikulas Patocka 4189d09e663SNeilBrownconfig DM_RAID 419d9f691c3SNeilBrown tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 420035220b3SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4217b81ef8bSMikulas Patocka select MD_RAID0 422b12d437bSJonathan Brassow select MD_RAID1 423d9f691c3SNeilBrown select MD_RAID10 4249d09e663SNeilBrown select MD_RAID456 425c27474acSYu Kuai select MD_BITMAP 4269d09e663SNeilBrown select BLK_DEV_MD 427a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 428d9f691c3SNeilBrown A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 4299d09e663SNeilBrown 4309d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 4319d09e663SNeilBrown the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 4329d09e663SNeilBrown of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 4339d09e663SNeilBrown contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 4349d09e663SNeilBrown For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 4359d09e663SNeilBrown while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 4369d09e663SNeilBrown of the available parity distribution methods. 4379d09e663SNeilBrown 4389d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 4399d09e663SNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 4409d09e663SNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 4419d09e663SNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 4429d09e663SNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 4439d09e663SNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 4449d09e663SNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 4459d09e663SNeilBrown 4461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_ZERO 4470149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Zero target" 4480149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 449a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MULTIPATH 4540149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Multipath target" 4550149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 456fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 457fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 458fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 459fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 460294ab783SChristoph Hellwig depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI 461a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 464fd5e0339SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_QL 465fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 466fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 467a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 468fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 469fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 470fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 471fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 472fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 473f392ba88SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_ST 474f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 475f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 476a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 477f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 478f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 479f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda time. 480f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 481f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 482f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 4832613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykovconfig DM_MULTIPATH_HST 4842613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time" 4852613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov depends on DM_MULTIPATH 4862613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov help 4872613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 4882613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 4892613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical 4902613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov service time). 4912613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 4922613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov If unsure, say N. 4932613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 494e4d2e82bSMike Christieconfig DM_MULTIPATH_IOA 495e4d2e82bSMike Christie tristate "I/O Path Selector based on CPU submission" 496e4d2e82bSMike Christie depends on DM_MULTIPATH 497e4d2e82bSMike Christie help 498e4d2e82bSMike Christie This path selector selects the path based on the CPU the IO is 499e4d2e82bSMike Christie executed on and the CPU to path mapping setup at path addition time. 500e4d2e82bSMike Christie 501e4d2e82bSMike Christie If unsure, say N. 502e4d2e82bSMike Christie 50326b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_DELAY 504d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "I/O delaying target" 505d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 506a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 50726b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 50826b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen them to different devices. Useful for testing. 50926b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 51026b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen If unsure, say N. 51126b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 512e4f3fabdSBryan Gurneyconfig DM_DUST 513e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney tristate "Bad sector simulation target" 514e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney depends on BLK_DEV_DM 515a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 516e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney A target that simulates bad sector behavior. 517e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney Useful for testing. 518e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 519e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney If unsure, say N. 520e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 5216bbc923dSHelen Koikeconfig DM_INIT 5226bbc923dSHelen Koike bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support" 5236bbc923dSHelen Koike depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y 524a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5256bbc923dSHelen Koike Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time. 5266bbc923dSHelen Koike This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an 5276bbc923dSHelen Koike initramfs. 5286cf2a73cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..." 5296bbc923dSHelen Koike format. 5306bbc923dSHelen Koike 5316bbc923dSHelen Koike If unsure, say N. 5326bbc923dSHelen Koike 53351e5b2bdSMike Andersonconfig DM_UEVENT 534e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon bool "DM uevents" 535e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 536a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 53751e5b2bdSMike Anderson Generate udev events for DM events. 53851e5b2bdSMike Anderson 5393407ef52SJosef Bacikconfig DM_FLAKEY 540d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Flakey target" 541d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 542a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5433407ef52SJosef Bacik A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 5443407ef52SJosef Bacik 545a4ffc152SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_VERITY 546d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Verity target support" 547d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 548a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 549a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO_HASH 550ba0f428cSEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 551a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 552*8fbb8fe7SEric Biggers select REED_SOLOMON if DM_VERITY_FEC 553*8fbb8fe7SEric Biggers select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8 if DM_VERITY_FEC 554a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 555a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 556a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 557a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 558a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka device. 559a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 560a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 561a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka cryptoapi configuration. 562a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 563a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 564a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka be called dm-verity. 565a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 566a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 567a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 56888cd3e6cSJaskaran Khuranaconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 56988cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support" 57088cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana depends on DM_VERITY 57188cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 57288cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana help 57388cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the 57488cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7 57588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree. 5764da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5774da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün By default, rely on the builtin trusted keyring. 5784da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5794da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün If unsure, say N. 5804da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5814da8f8c8SMickaël Salaünconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING 5824da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification with secondary keyring" 5834da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 5844da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on SECONDARY_TRUSTED_KEYRING 5854da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün help 5864da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün Rely on the secondary trusted keyring to verify dm-verity signatures. 58788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 58888cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana If unsure, say N. 58988cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 5906fce1f40SLuca Boccassiconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_PLATFORM_KEYRING 5916fce1f40SLuca Boccassi bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification with platform keyring" 5926fce1f40SLuca Boccassi default DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING 5936fce1f40SLuca Boccassi depends on DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 5946fce1f40SLuca Boccassi depends on INTEGRITY_PLATFORM_KEYRING 5956fce1f40SLuca Boccassi help 5966fce1f40SLuca Boccassi Rely also on the platform keyring to verify dm-verity signatures. 5976fce1f40SLuca Boccassi 5986fce1f40SLuca Boccassi If unsure, say N. 5996fce1f40SLuca Boccassi 600a739ff3fSSami Tolvanenconfig DM_VERITY_FEC 601a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen bool "Verity forward error correction support" 602a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen depends on DM_VERITY 603a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 604a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option 605a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to 606a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen recover from corrupted blocks. 607a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 608a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 609a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 6109d0eb0abSJim Ramsayconfig DM_SWITCH 6119d0eb0abSJim Ramsay tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6129d0eb0abSJim Ramsay depends on BLK_DEV_DM 613a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6149d0eb0abSJim Ramsay This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 6159d0eb0abSJim Ramsay mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 6169d0eb0abSJim Ramsay The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 6179d0eb0abSJim Ramsay by sending the target a message. 6189d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 6199d0eb0abSJim Ramsay To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6209d0eb0abSJim Ramsay be called dm-switch. 6219d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 6229d0eb0abSJim Ramsay If unsure, say N. 6239d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 6240e9cebe7SJosef Bacikconfig DM_LOG_WRITES 6250e9cebe7SJosef Bacik tristate "Log writes target support" 6260e9cebe7SJosef Bacik depends on BLK_DEV_DM 627a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6280e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use 6290e9cebe7SJosef Bacik normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device. 6300e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that 63157d42487SGeert Uytterhoeven their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing 6320e9cebe7SJosef Bacik them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the 6330e9cebe7SJosef Bacik contents. 6340e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6350e9cebe7SJosef Bacik To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6360e9cebe7SJosef Bacik be called dm-log-writes. 6370e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6380e9cebe7SJosef Bacik If unsure, say N. 6390e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6407eada909SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_INTEGRITY 6417ab84db6SMike Snitzer tristate "Integrity target support" 6427eada909SMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6437eada909SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 6447eada909SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 6457eada909SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 646f7b347acSAnthony Iliopoulos select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 6477eada909SMikulas Patocka select ASYNC_XOR 64882bb8599SMichael Weiß select DM_AUDIT if AUDIT 649a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6507ab84db6SMike Snitzer This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has 6517ab84db6SMike Snitzer additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing 6527ab84db6SMike Snitzer integrity information. 6537ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6547ab84db6SMike Snitzer This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to 6557ab84db6SMike Snitzer provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used 6567ab84db6SMike Snitzer standalone. 6577ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6587ab84db6SMike Snitzer To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6597ab84db6SMike Snitzer be called dm-integrity. 6607ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6613b1a94c8SDamien Le Moalconfig DM_ZONED 6623b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support" 6633b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6643b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED 665b690bd54SArnd Bergmann select CRC32 666a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6673b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned 6683b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block 6693b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write 6703b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that 6713b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to 6723b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses 6733b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores) 6743b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal are also possible. 6753b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6763b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6773b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal be called dm-zoned. 6783b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6797ab84db6SMike Snitzer If unsure, say N. 6807eada909SMikulas Patocka 6812cc1ae48SMichael Weißconfig DM_AUDIT 6822cc1ae48SMichael Weiß bool "DM audit events" 6836849302fSMike Snitzer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6842cc1ae48SMichael Weiß depends on AUDIT 6852cc1ae48SMichael Weiß help 6862cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Generate audit events for device-mapper. 6872cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 6882cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Enables audit logging of several security relevant events in the 6892cc1ae48SMichael Weiß particular device-mapper targets, especially the integrity target. 6902cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 691f36b1d3bSMike Snitzersource "drivers/md/dm-vdo/Kconfig" 692f36b1d3bSMike Snitzer 6931d57628fSDongsheng Yangsource "drivers/md/dm-pcache/Kconfig" 6941d57628fSDongsheng Yang 695afd44034SJan Engelhardtendif # MD 696