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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2010-03-25 14:51:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +0100 |
| commit | faa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19 (patch) | |
| tree | af667d1cdff7dc63b6893ee3f27a1f2503229ed1 /arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | |
| parent | 7c5ecaf7666617889f337296c610815b519abfa9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
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. |