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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] tracing: accelerate tracing filters with BPF
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:09:05 +0200
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* Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2014 19:55:11 -0700
> > Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:
> >
> >> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> >> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
> >>         default y
> >>
> >>  config EVENT_TRACING
> >> +     depends on NET
> >>       select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
> >>       bool
> >>
> >
> > This part makes me a little nervous. I know a lot of embedded devices
> > depend on tracing, but do they all have network?
> 
> I think we may want to split BPF into its own config, since it doesn't
> really depend on anything in net.

Exactly, that's a good plan.

Thanks,

	Ingo