From 1e9b51c28312f7334394aa30be56ff52c2b65b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Metzger Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:24:15 +0100 Subject: x86, bts, ftrace: a BTS ftrace plug-in prototype Impact: add new ftrace plugin A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in. The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu. The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace. This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches to become a (hopefully) useful tool. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index b815664fe37..85a78575956 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32 config X86_DS def_bool X86_PTRACE_BTS depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR + select HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER config X86_PTRACE_BTS bool "Branch Trace Store" -- cgit v1.2.3