From 470a1396c25c27b4aff08b14d5c9cd9b3da15e09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:50:09 +0200 Subject: tracing, perf_counter: Add help text to CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE Explain what tracepoint profiling sources are about. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Jeff Garzik LKML-Reference: <1248856508.6987.3041.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index cb2c0927022..823ee0a2d2a 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -961,9 +961,17 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS Say Y if unsure. config EVENT_PROFILE - bool "Tracepoint profile sources" + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From f26542600e605482a1231c44ddb2966d69bd09b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:40:20 +0200 Subject: perf_counter: Set the CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS default to y if CONFIG_PROFILING=y If user has already enabled profiling support in the kernel (for oprofile, old-style profiling of ftrace) then offer up perfcounters with a y default in interactive kconfig sessions. Still keep it off by default otherwise. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 823ee0a2d2a..3f7e60995c8 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ menu "Performance Counters" config PERF_COUNTERS bool "Kernel Performance Counters" + default y if PROFILING depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS select ANON_INODES help -- cgit v1.2.3