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@@ -739,6 +739,36 @@ config AIO
by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
this option saves about 7k.
+config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+ bool
+
+menu "Performance Counters"
+
+config PERF_COUNTERS
+ bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+ default y
+ select ANON_INODES
+ help
+ Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+
+ Performance counters are special hardware registers available
+ on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
+ types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
+ suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
+ kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
+ when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
+ used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
+
+ The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
+ these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
+ provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
+ capabilities on top of those.
+
+ Say Y if unsure.
+
+endmenu
+
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
default y
bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED