Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc

2 files changed, 37 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8e8b76d8a27..c7bac39d6c6 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
 	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
 	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
 	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
-	  is also required.
+	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
+	  smaller systems.
 
 endchoice
 
@@ -915,31 +916,36 @@ config AIO
           by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
           this option saves about 7k.
 
-config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
 	bool
 	help
 	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
 
-menu "Performance Counters"
+menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
 
-config PERF_COUNTERS
-	bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
-	default y if PROFILING
-	depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config PERF_EVENTS
+	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
+	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
+	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
 	select ANON_INODES
 	help
-	  Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
+	  by software and hardware.
 
-	  Performance counters are special hardware registers available
-	  on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
+	  Software events are supported either build-in or via the
+	  use of generic tracepoints.
+
+	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
+	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
 	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
 	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
 	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
 	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
 	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
 
-	  The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
-	  these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
+	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
+	  these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a
+	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
 	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
 	  capabilities on top of those.
 
@@ -947,17 +953,29 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS
 
 config EVENT_PROFILE
 	bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
-	depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING
+	depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
 	default y
 	help
-	 Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters.
+	 Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
 
-	 When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on
+	 When this is enabled, you can create perf events 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.)
 
+config PERF_COUNTERS
+	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
+	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+	help
+	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
+	  config option - please see that one for details.
+
+	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
+	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
+
+	  Say N if unsure.
+
 endmenu
 
 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
@@ -988,14 +1006,6 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG
 	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
 	  no support for cache validation etc.
 
-config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
-	bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
-	default n
-	help
-	  Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
-	  that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
-	  get_wchan() and suchlike.
-
 config COMPAT_BRK
 	bool "Disable heap randomization"
 	default y
@@ -1054,13 +1064,6 @@ config PROFILING
 config TRACEPOINTS
 	bool
 
-config MARKERS
-	bool "Activate markers"
-	select TRACEPOINTS
-	help
-	  Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
-	  dynamically changed for a probe function.
-
 source "arch/Kconfig"
 
 config SLOW_WORK
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 34971becbd3..7449819a480 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <linux/ioport.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
@@ -68,6 +67,7 @@
 #include <linux/async.h>
 #include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
 #include <linux/kmemtrace.h>
+#include <linux/sfi.h>
 #include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
 #include <trace/boot.h>
 
@@ -359,11 +359,6 @@ static inline void smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int maxcpus) { }
 
 #else
 
-#if NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG
-cpumask_t cpu_mask_all __read_mostly = CPU_MASK_ALL;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_mask_all);
-#endif
-
 /* Setup number of possible processor ids */
 int nr_cpu_ids __read_mostly = NR_CPUS;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nr_cpu_ids);
@@ -668,12 +663,12 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 #endif
 	thread_info_cache_init();
 	cred_init();
-	fork_init(num_physpages);
+	fork_init(totalram_pages);
 	proc_caches_init();
 	buffer_init();
 	key_init();
 	security_init();
-	vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
+	vfs_caches_init(totalram_pages);
 	radix_tree_init();
 	signals_init();
 	/* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
@@ -689,6 +684,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 	check_bugs();
 
 	acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
+	sfi_init_late();
 
 	ftrace_init();