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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f763762d544a..78bede218f10 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -732,6 +732,35 @@ config AIO by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling this option saves about 7k. +config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS + bool + +menu "Performance Counters" + +config PERF_COUNTERS + bool "Kernel Performance Counters" + depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS + default y + help + Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. + + Performance counters are special hardware registers available + on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain + types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses + suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the + kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts + when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be + used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. + + The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of + these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It + provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event + capabilities on top of those. + + Say Y if unsure. + +endmenu + config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS default y bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED |