md/raid5: factor out mark_uptodate from ops_complete_compute5
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1#
2# Block device driver configuration
3#
4
5menuconfig MD
6 bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
7 depends on BLOCK
8 help
9 Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
10 Required for RAID and logical volume management.
11
12if MD
13
14config BLK_DEV_MD
15 tristate "RAID support"
16 ---help---
17 This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
18 logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
19 partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
20 into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard
21 disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of
22 the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the
23 combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a
24 controller, you do not need to say Y here.
25
26 More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
27 Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
28 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
29 where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
30
31 If unsure, say N.
32
33config MD_AUTODETECT
34 bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot"
35 depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y
36 default y
37 ---help---
38 If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid
39 arrays as part of its boot process.
40
41 If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause
42 a several-second delay in the boot time due to various
43 synchronisation steps that are part of this step.
44
45 If unsure, say Y.
46
47config MD_LINEAR
48 tristate "Linear (append) mode"
49 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
50 ---help---
51 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
52 use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
53 partitions by simply appending one to the other.
54
55 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
56 will be called linear.
57
58 If unsure, say Y.
59
60config MD_RAID0
61 tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
62 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
63 ---help---
64 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
65 use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
66 partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
67 up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase
68 the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
69
70 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
71 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
72 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
73 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
74
75 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
76 will be called raid0.
77
78 If unsure, say Y.
79
80config MD_RAID1
81 tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
82 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
83 ---help---
84 A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
85 of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
86 will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
87 an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the
88 kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity
89 of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1)
90 drives.
91
92 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
93 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
94 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
95 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
96
97 If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code
98 as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1.
99
100 If unsure, say Y.
101
102config MD_RAID10
103 tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode (EXPERIMENTAL)"
104 depends on BLK_DEV_MD && EXPERIMENTAL
105 ---help---
106 RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
107 mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible
108 layout.
109 Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
110 be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
111 will be used).
112 RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
113 of redundancy and performance.
114
115 RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at:
116
117 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
118
119 If unsure, say Y.
120
121config MD_RAID456
122 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode"
123 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
124 select MD_RAID6_PQ
125 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
126 select ASYNC_XOR
127 ---help---
128 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
129 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
130 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
131 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
132 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
133 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
134 of the available parity distribution methods.
135
136 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
137 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
138 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
139 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
140 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
141 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
142 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
143
144 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
145 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
146 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
147 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
148
149 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To
150 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
151 will be called raid456.
152
153 If unsure, say Y.
154
155config MD_RAID6_PQ
156 tristate
157
158config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
159 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
160 depends on MD_RAID6_PQ
161 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
162 ---help---
163 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
164 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
165 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
166 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
167 engine if one is available.
168
169 If unsure, say N.
170
171config MD_MULTIPATH
172 tristate "Multipath I/O support"
173 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
174 help
175 Multipath-IO is the ability of certain devices to address the same
176 physical disk over multiple 'IO paths'. The code ensures that such
177 paths can be defined and handled at runtime, and ensures that a
178 transparent failover to the backup path(s) happens if a IO errors
179 arrives on the primary path.
180
181 If unsure, say N.
182
183config MD_FAULTY
184 tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
185 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
186 help
187 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
188 read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
189
190 In unsure, say N.
191
192config BLK_DEV_DM
193 tristate "Device mapper support"
194 ---help---
195 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
196 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
197 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
198 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
199
200 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
201
202 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
203 called dm-mod.
204
205 If unsure, say N.
206
207config DM_DEBUG
208 boolean "Device mapper debugging support"
209 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
210 ---help---
211 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
212
213 If unsure, say N.
214
215config DM_CRYPT
216 tristate "Crypt target support"
217 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
218 select CRYPTO
219 select CRYPTO_CBC
220 ---help---
221 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
222 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
223 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
224
225 Information on how to use dm-crypt can be found on
226
227 <http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/>
228
229 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
230 be called dm-crypt.
231
232 If unsure, say N.
233
234config DM_SNAPSHOT
235 tristate "Snapshot target"
236 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
237 ---help---
238 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
239
240config DM_MIRROR
241 tristate "Mirror target"
242 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
243 ---help---
244 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
245 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
246
247config DM_ZERO
248 tristate "Zero target"
249 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
250 ---help---
251 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
252 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
253
254config DM_MULTIPATH
255 tristate "Multipath target"
256 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
257 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
258 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
259 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
260 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
261 depends on SCSI_DH || !SCSI_DH
262 ---help---
263 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
264
265config DM_DELAY
266 tristate "I/O delaying target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
267 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
268 ---help---
269 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
270 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
271
272 If unsure, say N.
273
274config DM_UEVENT
275 bool "DM uevents (EXPERIMENTAL)"
276 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
277 ---help---
278 Generate udev events for DM events.
279
280endif # MD