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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 d10f31d..25373cf 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ menu "Performance Counters" config PERF_COUNTERS bool "Kernel Performance Counters" + default y if PROFILING depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS select ANON_INODES help @@ -953,9 +954,17 @@ 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 |