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1#
2# Block layer core configuration
3#
16ed002f 4menuconfig BLOCK
51d7513a 5 bool "Enable the block layer" if EMBEDDED
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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
3a65dfe8 26config LBD
b3a6ffe1 27 bool "Support for large block devices and files"
e6243863 28 depends on !64BIT
3a65dfe8 29 help
b3a6ffe1 30 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
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32 This option is required to support the full capacity of large
33 (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
34 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
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36 This option also enables support for single files larger than
37 2TB.
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39 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
40 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
41 enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount any filesystems
42 that use the huge_file feature, which is enabled by default
43 by mke2fs.ext4. The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
44
ee86418d 45 If unsure, say N.
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47config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
48 bool "Support for tracing block io actions"
09540e69 49 depends on SYSFS
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50 select RELAY
51 select DEBUG_FS
5f3ea37c 52 select TRACEPOINTS
2056a782 53 help
ee86418d 54 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
2056a782 55 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
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56 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
57 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
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75ce6fac 59 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
2056a782 60
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61 If unsure, say N.
62
3d6392cf 63config BLK_DEV_BSG
319a7b7f 64 bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
80ed71ce 65 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
3d6392cf 66 ---help---
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67 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
68 for any block device.
69
70 Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
71 can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
72 with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
73 protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
74 Attached SCSI).
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76 If unsure, say N.
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78config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
79 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
80 ---help---
81 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
82 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
83 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
84 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
85
86 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
87 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
88 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
89
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90endif # BLOCK
91
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92config BLOCK_COMPAT
93 bool
2b9e0aae 94 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
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95 default y
96
3a65dfe8 97source block/Kconfig.iosched