[PATCH 1/2] oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64
Robert Richter
rric at kernel.org
Thu Apr 9 15:43:52 AEST 2015
On 09.04.15 12:52:55, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> We want to enable the hard lockup detector on ppc64, but right now
> that enables the oprofile NMI timer too.
>
> We'd prefer not to enable the oprofile NMI timer, it adds another
> element to our PMU testing and it requires us to increase our
> exported symbols (eg cpu_khz).
>
> Modify the config entry for OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER to disable it on PPC64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric at kernel.org>
Please pass this patch along with patch 2 of this series (ppc tree or
so).
Thanks,
-Robert
> ---
> arch/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 05d7a8a..0cc605d 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config HAVE_OPROFILE
>
> config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
> def_bool y
> - depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
> + depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
>
> config KPROBES
> bool "Kprobes"
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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