Re: [RFC PATCHSET] sched,perf: unify tracers in sched and moveperf on top of TP

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed May 05 2010 - 05:51:25 EST


On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:32 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > Well, I already utterly hate that x86 can't build with !
> > CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS, also requiring CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is going the wrong
> > way.
> >
> > I've always explicitly avoided depending on tracepoints, and I'd very
> > much like to keep it that way.
>
> I was wondering the other way around - ie. the possibility to make
> perf optional and maybe even as a module which depends on TPs, which
> would be nicer than the current situation and make the code less
> cluttered too.

I really really hate making perf rely on tracepoints.

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