From 039ca4e74a1cf60bd7487324a564ecf5c981f254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:22:17 +0800 Subject: tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events and perf-kmem, so we remove it. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt [ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- kernel/trace/Kconfig | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig') diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 572992a..f669092 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -354,26 +354,6 @@ config STACK_TRACER Say N if unsure. -config KMEMTRACE - bool "Trace SLAB allocations" - select GENERIC_TRACER - help - kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as - kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free, etc. Collected - data is then fed to the userspace application in order to analyse - allocation hotspots, internal fragmentation and so on, making it - possible to see how well an allocator performs, as well as debug - and profile kernel code. - - This requires an userspace application to use. See - Documentation/trace/kmemtrace.txt for more information. - - Saying Y will make the kernel somewhat larger and slower. However, - if you disable kmemtrace at run-time or boot-time, the performance - impact is minimal (depending on the arch the kernel is built for). - - If unsure, say N. - config WORKQUEUE_TRACER bool "Trace workqueues" select GENERIC_TRACER -- cgit v1.1