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Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 41 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 7be4d383674..d3a50967c33 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -302,13 +302,14 @@ config AUDITSYSCALL config AUDIT_TREE def_bool y - depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY + depends on AUDITSYSCALL + select INOTIFY menu "RCU Subsystem" choice prompt "RCU Implementation" - default CLASSIC_RCU + default TREE_RCU config CLASSIC_RCU bool "Classic RCU" @@ -933,6 +934,42 @@ config AIO by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling this option saves about 7k. +config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS + bool + help + See tools/perf/design.txt for details. + +menu "Performance Counters" + +config PERF_COUNTERS + bool "Kernel Performance Counters" + depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS + select ANON_INODES + help + Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. + + Performance counters are special hardware registers available + on most modern CPUs. 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 + provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event + capabilities on top of those. + + Say Y if unsure. + +config EVENT_PROFILE + bool "Tracepoint profile sources" + depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACER + default y + +endmenu + config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS default y bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED |