drivers/vhost/Kconfig
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
drivers/vhost/Kconfig- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 3246 bytes
- Lines
- 117
- Domain
- Driver Families
- Bucket
- drivers/vhost
- Inferred role
- Driver Families: build/configuration rule
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config VHOST_IOTLB
tristate
help
Generic IOTLB implementation for vhost and vringh.
This option is selected by any driver which needs to support
an IOMMU in software.
config VHOST_RING
tristate
select VHOST_IOTLB
help
This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
the host side of a virtio ring.
config VHOST_TASK
bool
default n
config VHOST
tristate
select VHOST_IOTLB
select VHOST_TASK
help
This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
the core of vhost.
menuconfig VHOST_MENU
bool "VHOST drivers"
default y
if VHOST_MENU
config VHOST_NET
tristate "Host kernel accelerator for virtio net"
depends on NET && EVENTFD && (TUN || !TUN) && (TAP || !TAP)
select VHOST
help
This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
guest networking with virtio_net. Not to be confused with virtio_net
module itself which needs to be loaded in guest kernel.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called vhost_net.
config VHOST_SCSI
tristate "VHOST_SCSI TCM fabric driver"
depends on TARGET_CORE && EVENTFD
select VHOST
select SG_POOL
default n
help
Say M here to enable the vhost_scsi TCM fabric module
for use with virtio-scsi guests
config VHOST_VSOCK
tristate "vhost virtio-vsock driver"
depends on VSOCKETS && EVENTFD
select VHOST
select VIRTIO_VSOCKETS_COMMON
default n
help
This kernel module can be loaded in the host kernel to provide AF_VSOCK
sockets for communicating with guests. The guests must have the
virtio_transport.ko driver loaded to use the virtio-vsock device.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
vhost_vsock.
config VHOST_VDPA
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Driver Families / drivers/vhost.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.