From faa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:51:50 +0100 Subject: x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Markus Metzger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index a19829374e6a..918fbb1855cc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -502,23 +502,3 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32 CPU might render the kernel unbootable. If unsure, say N. - -config X86_DS - def_bool X86_PTRACE_BTS - depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR - select HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER - -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. - - Debuggers may use it to collect an execution trace of the debugged - application in order to answer the question 'how did I get here?'. - Debuggers may trace user mode as well as kernel mode. - - Say Y unless there is no application development on this machine - and you want to save a small amount of code size. -- cgit v1.2.3