[tip:perf/pebs] perf, x86: Add INSTRUCTION_DECODER config flag

tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2010-03-10T13:25:40Z

Commit-ID: ba7e4d13fc7e25af1d167d40e6f028298dfc55ad
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ba7e4d13fc7e25af1d167d40e6f028298dfc55ad
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:58:12 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:34:12 +0100

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>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +++
arch/x86/lib/Makefile | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index e984403..e1240f6 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
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
index 419386c..cbaf8f2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ lib-y := delay.o
lib-y += thunk_$(BITS).o
lib-y += usercopy_$(BITS).o getuser.o putuser.o
lib-y += memcpy_$(BITS).o
-lib-$(CONFIG_KPROBES) += insn.o inat.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER) += insn.o inat.o

obj-y += msr.o msr-reg.o msr-reg-export.o