orangefs: fix do_readv_writev() handling of error halfway through
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1#
2# Block layer core configuration
3#
16ed002f 4menuconfig BLOCK
6a108a14 5 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
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6 default y
7 help
ee86418d 8 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
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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:
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15 - block device files will become unusable
16 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
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18 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
19 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
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21 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
22 suchlike.
23
24if BLOCK
25
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26config LBDAF
27 bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
e6243863 28 depends on !64BIT
db29a6b4 29 default y
3a65dfe8 30 help
b3a6ffe1 31 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
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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.
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37 This option also enables support for single files larger than
38 2TB.
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40 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
41 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
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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.
4d783b09 45
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46 The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
47
48 If unsure, say Y.
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3d6392cf 50config BLK_DEV_BSG
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51 bool "Block layer SG support v4"
52 default y
53 help
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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
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63 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
64 access device serial numbers, etc.
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66 If unsure, say Y.
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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
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78config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
79 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
2341c2f8 80 select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
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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.
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91config BLK_DEV_DAX
92 bool "Block device DAX support"
93 depends on FS_DAX
94 depends on BROKEN
95 help
96 When DAX support is available (CONFIG_FS_DAX) raw block
97 devices can also support direct userspace access to the
98 storage capacity via MMAP(2) similar to a file on a
99 DAX-enabled filesystem. However, the DAX I/O-path disables
100 some standard I/O-statistics, and the MMAP(2) path has some
101 operational differences due to bypassing the page
102 cache. If in doubt, say N.
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104config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
105 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
8e42e0a2 106 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
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107 default n
108 ---help---
109 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
110 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
111 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
112 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
113
114 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
115
080506ad 116config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
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117 bool "Block device command line partition parser"
118 default n
119 ---help---
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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.
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125 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information.
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127menu "Partition Types"
128
129source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
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131endmenu
132
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133endif # BLOCK
134
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135config BLOCK_COMPAT
136 bool
2b9e0aae 137 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
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138 default y
139
3a65dfe8 140source block/Kconfig.iosched