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authorIngo Molnar2009-06-06 13:58:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2010-03-10 13:34:12 +0100
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parentperf, x86: Fix LBR read-out (diff)
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perf, x86: Add INSTRUCTION_DECODER config flag
The PEBS+LBR decoding magic needs the insn_get_length() infrastructure to be able to decode x86 instruction length. So split it out of KPROBES dependency and make it enabled when either KPROBES or PERF_EVENTS is enabled. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index e98440371525..e1240f652a9b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
+config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
+ def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
+
config OUTPUT_FORMAT
string
default "elf32-i386" if X86_32