On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 04:59 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > @@ -957,6 +957,12 @@ config EVENT_PROFILE > > bool "Tracepoint profile sources" > > depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING > > default y > > + help > > + Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters. > > + > > + When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on > > + tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID > > + found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. > > Thanks. Is this feature useful w/out debugfs? Not really, but I was assuming (/me goes check) that EVENT_TRACING would mandate debugfs being there. Hmm kernel/trace/Kconfig seems a little select heavy, but I think it'll work out and select DEBUG_FS too. I'll queue up the patch and push it Linus wards this cycle. Thanks! -- 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