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2# Block layer core configuration
3#
4menuconfig BLOCK
5       bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
6       default y
7       help
8	 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
9
10	 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
11	 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
12
13	 If this option is disabled:
14
15	   - block device files will become unusable
16	   - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
17
18	 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
19	 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
20
21	 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
22	 suchlike.
23
24if BLOCK
25
26config LBDAF
27	bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
28	depends on !64BIT
29	default y
30	help
31	  Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
32
33	  This option is required to support the full capacity of large
34	  (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
35	  Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
36
37	  This option also enables support for single files larger than
38	  2TB.
39
40	  The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
41	  order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
42	  enabled.  Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write
43	  mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is
44	  enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4.
45
46	  The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
47
48	  If unsure, say Y.
49
50config BLK_DEV_BSG
51	bool "Block layer SG support v4"
52	default y
53	help
54	  Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
55	  for any block device.
56
57	  Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
58	  can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
59	  with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
60	  protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
61	  Attached SCSI).
62
63	  This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
64	  access device serial numbers, etc.
65
66	  If unsure, say Y.
67
68config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
69	bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
70	default n
71	select BLK_DEV_BSG
72	help
73	  Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
74	  normally need to manually enable this.
75
76	  If unsure, say N.
77
78config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
79	bool "Block layer data integrity support"
80	select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
81	---help---
82	Some storage devices allow extra information to be
83	stored/retrieved to help protect the data.  The block layer
84	data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
85	filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
86
87	Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
88	T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
89	Protection.  If in doubt, say N.
90
91config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
92	bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
93	depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
94	default n
95	---help---
96	Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
97	the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
98	one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
99	cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
100
101	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
102
103config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
104	bool "Block device command line partition parser"
105	default n
106	---help---
107	Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
108	the kernel boot args.  This is typically of use for embedded devices
109	which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
110	partitions on a block device.
111
112	See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information.
113
114menu "Partition Types"
115
116source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
117
118endmenu
119
120endif # BLOCK
121
122config BLOCK_COMPAT
123	bool
124	depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
125	default y
126
127source block/Kconfig.iosched
128