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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-06 14:21:50 +0200
commit906010b2134e14a2e377decbadd357b3d0ab9c6a (patch)
tree598b30d08f5ca8df1e00abc295b120fa1bd2c2e2 /arch
parentperf_events: Make ABI definitions available to userspace (diff)
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perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps. These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this. However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular allocations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/Kconfig2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index 97fca4695e0b..9b70a2f28dc7 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ config SPARC
select RTC_CLASS
select RTC_DRV_M48T59
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ config SPARC64
select RTC_DRV_SUN4V
select RTC_DRV_STARFIRE
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
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