Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Oct 08 2013 - 16:20:19 EST


On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:36:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Peter is working on it - but it's slow. Could you try to disable
> sys_perf_open, ptrace and the NMI watchdog? No perf functionality should
> be used in that case. If you disable CONFIG_FTRACE then no ftrace
> functionality should be used.
>

Dave,

The ftrace oops you've been seeing is from the function tracer, you don't
need to disable all of ftrace, just CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER (and anything
that selects it: CONFIG_STACK_TRACER).

-- Steve

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