From 23637d477c1f53acbb176a02c241d60a25888fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:15:20 +0200 Subject: lockup_detector: Introduce CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR This new config is deemed to simplify even more the lockup detector dependencies and can make it easier to bring a smooth sorting between archs that support the new generic lockup detector and those that still have their own, especially for those that are in the middle of this migration. Instead of checking whether we have CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR + CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI each time an arch wants to know if it needs to build its own lockup detector, take a shortcut with this new config. It is enabled only if the hardlockup detection part of the whole lockup detector is on. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov --- arch/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 89b0efb5094..35084f28008 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -147,5 +147,9 @@ config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI bool + help + System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event + subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events + to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.2.3