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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	fweisbec@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 18:49:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131006164934.GA15167@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380922788-23112-7-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>


* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> As suggested by Ingo.
> 
> Make HW_BREAKPOINTS a config option. HW_BREAKPOINTS depends
> on perf. This allows disabling PERF_EVENTS for systems that
> don't need it (e.g. anything not used for development)
> 
> Disabling PERF_EVENTS saves over 700k of kernel text (~5% of my config)
> and significant data/bss:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 13692640	1922416	1478656	17093712	104d450	obj/vmlinux
> 12980092	1787544	1470464	16238100	 f7c614	obj-noperf/vmlinux

Btw., could you send me your .config so I can investigate this?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-06 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-04 21:39 Allow disabling perf on x86 Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86, amd: Move __get_ibs_caps into common amd CPU file Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf, x86: Make perf amd ibs code depend on PERF_EVENTS and SUP_AMD Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, ptrace: Ifdef HW_BREAKPOINTS code in ptrace Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] trace: Make UPROBES depend on PERF_EVENTS Andi Kleen
2013-10-05  0:52   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-05  3:25     ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, kgdb: Support compiling without hardware break points Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 22:27   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-05  7:08   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-05 17:05     ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-08 19:55       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-08 20:05         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 20:34           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-08 20:35           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-09  6:02             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-06 16:49   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-10-08  6:59     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 15:35       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-08 19:39         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 15:42       ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-08 15:51       ` Dave Jones
2013-10-08 16:22         ` David Ahern
2013-10-08 16:24           ` Dave Jones
2013-10-08 19:36             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 20:19               ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-09  3:21             ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-09  3:24       ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-09  3:39       ` Andi Kleen

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