Re: [PATCH] perf_counter: do not create perf counter mlock sysctlwhen CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS=n

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 15:25:38 EST



* Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Building tip from 82811bee3 without CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS results in:
>
> CC kernel/sysctl.o
> kernel/sysctl.c:928: error: 'sysctl_perf_counter_mlock' undeclared here (not in a function)
>
> This is due to c5078f78b "perf_counter: provide an mlock threshold"
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 44ebd90..c2a4467 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -922,6 +922,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
> .child = slow_work_sysctls,
> },
> #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
> {
> .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
> .procname = "perf_counter_mlock_kb",
> @@ -930,6 +931,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
> .mode = 0644,
> .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
> },
> +#endif
> /*
> * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
> * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt

Hm, is this still needed? It doesnt apply here and i'm not seeing
build failures.

Thanks,

Ingo
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