Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757465AbZKCAhi (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:37:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757447AbZKCAhh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:37:37 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31594 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757446AbZKCAhf (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:37:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4AEF7B22.50705@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:36:50 -0500 From: Masami Hiramatsu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9r?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ic_Weisbecker?= , lkml , Steven Rostedt , Jim Keniston , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Christoph Hellwig , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jason Baron , "K.Prasad" , Peter Zijlstra , Srikar Dronamraju , systemtap , DLE Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip perf/probes 00/10] x86 insn decoder bugfixes and perf-probe syntax changes References: <20091027204156.30545.96425.stgit@harusame> <20091029085348.GD26970@elte.hu> <4AE9C919.4070003@redhat.com> <4AEF4C29.2060501@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4AEF4C29.2060501@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 36 Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> What we want here is two fold: >>> >>> - enable kprobes event support when perf events is enabled and kprobes >>> is enabled. We dont want another config option for it. >> >> Sure, at least that combination should enable kprobe-tracer forcibly. > > Hmm, someone may not want to enables kprobe-tracer. Perhaps, > "default y if (EVENT_PROFILE)" is enough, isn't it? Oops, this causes recursive dependency error :-( kernel/trace/Kconfig:90:error: found recursive dependency: TRACING -> EVENT_TRACING -> EVENT_PROFILE -> KPROBE_TRACER -> GENERIC_TRACER -> TRACING At this time, this kind of weak dependency may not supported by Kbuild yet. Thank you, -- Masami Hiramatsu Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Software Solutions Division e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/