Commit-ID: d45b41ae8da0f54aec0eebcc6f893ba5f22a1e8e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d45b41ae8da0f54aec0eebcc6f893ba5f22a1e8e Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:15:14 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CommitDate: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:15:14 +0200 x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS for now Oleg Nesterov found a couple of races in the ptrace-bts code and fixes are queued up for it but they did not get ready in time for the merge window. We'll merge them in v2.6.31 - until then mark the feature as CONFIG_BROKEN. There's no user-space yet making use of this so it's not a big issue. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index 924e156..8130334 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ config X86_PTRACE_BTS bool "Branch Trace Store" default y depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR + depends on BROKEN ---help--- This adds a ptrace interface to the hardware's branch trace store. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html