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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-03-25 14:51:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-26 11:33:55 +0100
commitfaa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19 (patch)
treeaf667d1cdff7dc63b6893ee3f27a1f2503229ed1 /arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
parent7c5ecaf7666617889f337296c610815b519abfa9 (diff)
downloadlinux-faa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19.tar.bz2
x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index a19829374e6a..918fbb1855cc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -502,23 +502,3 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32
CPU might render the kernel unbootable.
If unsure, say N.
-
-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"
- default y
- depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR
- depends on BROKEN
- ---help---
- This adds a ptrace interface to the hardware's branch trace store.
-
- Debuggers may use it to collect an execution trace of the debugged
- application in order to answer the question 'how did I get here?'.
- Debuggers may trace user mode as well as kernel mode.
-
- Say Y unless there is no application development on this machine
- and you want to save a small amount of code size.