2009-04-24 07:45:05

by Metzger, Markus T

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Subject: [patch] x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support

The races found by Oleg Nesterov have been fixed.

Reenable branch trace support.


CC: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 1 0 + 1 - 0 !
1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)

Index: b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
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--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -506,7 +506,6 @@ 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.

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