1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # Block layer core configuration
6 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
11 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
13 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
14 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
16 If this option is disabled:
18 - block device files will become unusable
19 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
21 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
22 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
24 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
29 config BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
30 bool "Legacy autoloading support"
33 Enable loading modules and creating block device instances based on
34 accesses through their device special file. This is a historic Linux
35 feature and makes no sense in a udev world where device files are
36 created on demand, but scripts that manually create device nodes and
37 then call losetup might rely on this behavior.
39 config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
42 config BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT
45 config BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
48 config BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON
55 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
56 select BLK_DEV_BSG_COMMON
58 Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
59 normally need to manually enable this.
63 config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
64 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
68 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
69 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
70 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
71 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
73 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
74 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
75 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
77 config BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED
78 bool "Allow writing to mounted block devices"
81 When a block device is mounted, writing to its buffer cache is very
82 likely going to cause filesystem corruption. It is also rather easy to
83 crash the kernel in this way since the filesystem has no practical way
84 of detecting these writes to buffer cache and verifying its metadata
85 integrity. However there are some setups that need this capability
86 like running fsck on read-only mounted root device, modifying some
87 features on mounted ext4 filesystem, and similar. If you say N, the
88 kernel will prevent processes from writing to block devices that are
89 mounted by filesystems which provides some more protection from runaway
90 privileged processes and generally makes it much harder to crash
91 filesystem drivers. Note however that this does not prevent
92 underlying device(s) from being modified by other means, e.g. by
93 directly submitting SCSI commands or through access to lower layers of
94 storage stack. If in doubt, say Y. The configuration can be overridden
95 with the bdev_allow_write_mounted boot option.
98 bool "Zoned block device support"
100 Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables
101 support for ZAC/ZBC/ZNS host-managed and host-aware zoned block
104 Say yes here if you have a ZAC, ZBC, or ZNS storage device.
106 config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
107 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
108 depends on BLK_CGROUP
109 select BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT
111 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
112 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
113 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
114 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
116 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
119 bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling"
121 Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered
122 background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having
123 less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done
124 dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in
125 the realtime performance of the disk.
128 bool "Enable writeback throttling by default"
132 Enable writeback throttling by default for request-based block devices.
134 config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY
135 bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection"
136 depends on BLK_CGROUP
138 Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling.
139 The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below
140 the configured latency target, throttling anybody with a higher latency
141 target than the victimized group.
143 Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
145 config BLK_CGROUP_FC_APPID
146 bool "Enable support to track FC I/O Traffic across cgroup applications"
147 depends on BLK_CGROUP && NVME_FC
149 Enabling this option enables the support to track FC I/O traffic across
150 cgroup applications. It enables the Fabric and the storage targets to
151 identify, monitor, and handle FC traffic based on VM tags by inserting
152 application specific identification into the FC frame.
154 config BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST
155 bool "Enable support for cost model based cgroup IO controller"
156 depends on BLK_CGROUP
157 select BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
159 Enabling this option enables the .weight interface for cost
160 model based proportional IO control. The IO controller
161 distributes IO capacity between different groups based on
162 their share of the overall weight distribution.
164 config BLK_CGROUP_IOPRIO
165 bool "Cgroup I/O controller for assigning an I/O priority class"
166 depends on BLK_CGROUP
168 Enable the .prio interface for assigning an I/O priority class to
169 requests. The I/O priority class affects the order in which an I/O
170 scheduler and block devices process requests. Only some I/O schedulers
171 and some block devices support I/O priorities.
174 bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs"
178 Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information
179 is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost
182 Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should
186 bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs"
188 select PSERIES_PLPKS if PPC_PSERIES
189 select PSERIES_PLPKS_SED if PPC_PSERIES
191 Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers.
192 Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock
193 Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol.
195 config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION
196 bool "Enable inline encryption support in block layer"
198 Build the blk-crypto subsystem. Enabling this lets the
199 block layer handle encryption, so users can take
200 advantage of inline encryption hardware if present.
202 config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK
203 bool "Enable crypto API fallback for blk-crypto"
204 depends on BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION
206 select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
208 Enabling this lets the block layer handle inline encryption
209 by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline
210 encryption hardware is not present.
212 source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
225 # do not use in new code
226 config BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED
229 config BLK_MQ_STACKING
232 source "block/Kconfig.iosched"