[PATCH v2 1/3] init/Kconfig: Move BLK_CGROUP to block/Kconfig

From: Juerg Haefliger
Date: Wed May 19 2021 - 04:56:33 EST


While at it, make the option prompt more descriptive and fix the help
text indentation to be 1 tab + 2 spaces.

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/Kconfig | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
init/Kconfig | 22 ----------------------
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
index a2297edfdde8..fbc4cf1a2075 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig
+++ b/block/Kconfig
@@ -202,6 +202,29 @@ config BLK_INLINE_ENCRYPTION_FALLBACK
by falling back to the kernel crypto API when inline
encryption hardware is not present.

+config BLK_CGROUP
+ bool "Enable block IO cgroup controller"
+ depends on CGROUPS
+ default n
+ help
+ Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
+ cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
+ policies.
+
+ Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
+ control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
+ to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
+ block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
+
+ This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
+ One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
+ enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
+ CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
+ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
+
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more
+ information.
+
menu "Partition Types"

source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 1ea12c64e4c9..5be10c091603 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -921,28 +921,6 @@ config MEMCG_KMEM
depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
default y

-config BLK_CGROUP
- bool "IO controller"
- depends on BLOCK
- default n
- help
- Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
- cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
- policies.
-
- Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
- control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
- to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
- block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
-
- This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
- One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
- enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
- CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
-
- See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
-
config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
bool
depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
--
2.27.0