x86: Instruction decoder API

[pandora-kernel.git] / init / Kconfig

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index cb2c092..3f7e609 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ menu "Performance Counters"
 
 config PERF_COUNTERS
        bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
+       default y if PROFILING
        depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
        select ANON_INODES
        help
@@ -961,9 +962,17 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS
          Say Y if unsure.
 
 config EVENT_PROFILE
-       bool "Tracepoint profile sources"
+       bool "Tracepoint profiling 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. (The -e/--events
+        option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
+        tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
 
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