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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-31 17:54:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-31 18:05:25 +0200 |
| commit | bbe69aa57a7374b51242b95a54eefcf0d0393b7e (patch) | |
| tree | c45e48d11cc9cb81a57c8c27f7243863b117cec8 /init/Kconfig | |
| parent | a417887637e862b434b293404f2a31ad1f282a58 (diff) | |
| parent | 326ba5010a5429a5a528b268b36a5900d4ab0eba (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into core/locking
Merge reason: we were on -rc4, move to -rc8 before applying
a new batch of locking infrastructure changes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index cb2c0927022..3f7e60995c8 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ menu "Performance Counters" config PERF_COUNTERS bool "Kernel Performance Counters" + default y if PROFILING depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS select ANON_INODES help @@ -961,9 +962,17 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS Say Y if unsure. config EVENT_PROFILE - bool "Tracepoint profile sources" + bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING default y + help + Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters. + + When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on + tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID + found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events + option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic + tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) endmenu |