From 470a1396c25c27b4aff08b14d5c9cd9b3da15e09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:50:09 +0200 Subject: tracing, perf_counter: Add help text to CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE Explain what tracepoint profiling sources are about. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Jeff Garzik LKML-Reference: <1248856508.6987.3041.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index cb2c0927022..823ee0a2d2a 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -961,9 +961,17 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS Say Y if unsure. config EVENT_PROFILE - bool "Tracepoint profile sources" + bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING default y + help + Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters. + + When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on + tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID + found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events + option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic + tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) endmenu -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258