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perf, x86: Add INSTRUCTION_DECODER config flag

The PEBS+LBR decoding magic needs the insn_get_length() infrastructure
to be able to decode x86 instruction length.

So split it out of KPROBES dependency and make it enabled when either
KPROBES or PERF_EVENTS is enabled.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar 16 years ago
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2 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 3 0
      arch/x86/Kconfig
  2. 1 1
      arch/x86/lib/Makefile

+ 3 - 0
arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
 	select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 
+config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
+	def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
+
 config OUTPUT_FORMAT
 	string
 	default "elf32-i386" if X86_32

+ 1 - 1
arch/x86/lib/Makefile

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ lib-y := delay.o
 lib-y += thunk_$(BITS).o
 lib-y += usercopy_$(BITS).o getuser.o putuser.o
 lib-y += memcpy_$(BITS).o
-lib-$(CONFIG_KPROBES) += insn.o inat.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER) += insn.o inat.o
 
 obj-y += msr.o msr-reg.o msr-reg-export.o