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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-30 12:50:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-30 12:50:59 -0700 |
| commit | 8bd93ca7b03f38a7bc1a4ed9e93e8c006e753d5b (patch) | |
| tree | 308bb026df1360d8708d53ebd4421719b470b2fb /arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | |
| parent | 7f82f000ed030d1108b4de47d9e2d556092980c6 (diff) | |
| parent | 87c6f40128f92621698f97a62d2ead5184d1dd97 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs
x86: 64 bit print out absent pages num too
x86, kdump: fix invalid access on i386 sparsemem
x86: fix APIC_DEBUG with inquire_remote_apic
x86: AMD microcode patch loader author update
x86: microcode patch loader author update
mailmap: add Peter Oruba
x86, bts: improve help text for BTS config
doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index 0b7c4a3f065..b815664fe37 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -513,19 +513,19 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32 If unsure, say N. config X86_DS - bool "Debug Store support" - default y - help - Add support for Debug Store. - This allows the kernel to provide a memory buffer to the hardware - to store various profiling and tracing events. + def_bool X86_PTRACE_BTS + depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR config X86_PTRACE_BTS - bool "ptrace interface to Branch Trace Store" + bool "Branch Trace Store" default y - depends on (X86_DS && X86_DEBUGCTLMSR) + depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR help - Add a ptrace interface to allow collecting an execution trace - of the traced task. - This collects control flow changes in a (cyclic) buffer and allows - debuggers to fill in the gaps and show an execution trace of the debuggee. + This adds a ptrace interface to the hardware's branch trace store. + + Debuggers may use it to collect an execution trace of the debugged + application in order to answer the question 'how did I get here?'. + Debuggers may trace user mode as well as kernel mode. + + Say Y unless there is no application development on this machine + and you want to save a small amount of code size. |