linux/block/Kconfig, branch v3.13

block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsing

2013-09-30T21:31:02Z

Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER. However, that name is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot arg processing, when it really is block specific. Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_ prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it is block specific. In addition, fix up the following less critical items: - help text was not really at all helpful. - index file for Documentation was not updated - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - clarify wording in source comments Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Cai Zhiyong Cc: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: support embedded device command line partition

2013-09-11T22:56:57Z

Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c" About the partition verbose reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text] [yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()] Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong Cc: Karel Zak Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" Cc: Marius Groeger Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Brian Norris Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM

2013-02-22T09:42:45Z

The block device doesn't use percpu rw-semaphore anymore, so don't select it for compilation. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

percpu_rw_semaphore: introduce CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM

2012-12-18T01:15:18Z

Currently only block_dev and uprobes use percpu_rw_semaphore, add the config option selected by BLOCK || UPROBES. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Anton Arapov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Mikulas Patocka Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2012-10-23T20:30:34Z

This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it. CC: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

move fs/partitions to block/

2012-01-04T03:54:06Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: add bsg helper library

2011-07-31T20:05:09Z

This moves the FC classes bsg code to the block layer and makes it a lib so that other classes like iscsi and SAS can use it. It is helpful because working with the request queue, bios, creating scatterlists, etc are a pain that the LLD does not have to worry about with normal IOs and should not have to worry about for bsg requests. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

2011-01-21T01:02:05Z

The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than only small devices. This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc). Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they are making should enable it. Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Greg KH Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

blkio: Core implementation of throttle policy

2010-09-16T06:42:52Z

o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling comes in later patches. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement

2010-04-26T17:27:56Z

This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues. o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from "Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception. Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers. o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED. This option currently does two things. - Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace - Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat files in cgroup. If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of all the additional debug stat files which is not desired. Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED. This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which can be enabled through config menu. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Divyesh Shah Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe