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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 13:58:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-10 13:34:12 +0100
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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')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/Makefile2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
index 419386c24b82..cbaf8f2b83df 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