From 531f6ed7de911e975352fbb2b228367121da630a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Metzger Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:09:27 +0200 Subject: x86, bts: improve help text for BTS config Improve the help text of the X86_PTRACE_BTS config. Make X86_DS invisible and depend on X86_PTRACE_BTS. Reported-by: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index 0b7c4a3f065..b815664fe37 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -513,19 +513,19 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32 If unsure, say N. config X86_DS - bool "Debug Store support" - default y - help - Add support for Debug Store. - This allows the kernel to provide a memory buffer to the hardware - to store various profiling and tracing events. + def_bool X86_PTRACE_BTS + depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR config X86_PTRACE_BTS - bool "ptrace interface to Branch Trace Store" + bool "Branch Trace Store" default y - depends on (X86_DS && X86_DEBUGCTLMSR) + depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR help - Add a ptrace interface to allow collecting an execution trace - of the traced task. - This collects control flow changes in a (cyclic) buffer and allows - debuggers to fill in the gaps and show an execution trace of the debuggee. + 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. -- cgit v1.2.3