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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-24 12:25:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-24 12:25:54 +0200 |
| commit | 5f9ece02401116b29eb04396b99ea092acb75dd8 (patch) | |
| tree | e10386e2dc63c275646b4eb0bed857da7bf86c6a /init/Kconfig | |
| parent | 9f51e24ee8b5a1595b6a5ac0c2be278a16488e75 (diff) | |
| parent | 422bef879e84104fee6dc68ded0e371dbeb5f88e (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc7' into x86/cleanups
Merge reason: we were on -rc1 before - go up to -rc7
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 1ce05a4cb5f..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" - depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACER + 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 |