Re: [PATCH] drivers/perf: Remove ARM_SPE_PMU explicit PERF_EVENTS dependency

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue May 22 2018 - 11:15:06 EST


On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:54:04PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Since commit bddb9b68d3fb ("drivers/perf: commonise PERF_EVENTS
> dependency"), all perf drivers depend on PERF_EVENTS config under a
> common menu.
>
> Config ARM_SPE_PMU still declares explicitly a dependency on
> PERF_EVENTS, which is unneeded, so remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Will, I assume that you will queue this.

Mark.

>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/Kconfig b/drivers/perf/Kconfig
> index 28bb5a0..90ce4da 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/perf/Kconfig
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ config XGENE_PMU
>
> config ARM_SPE_PMU
> tristate "Enable support for the ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling Extension"
> - depends on PERF_EVENTS && ARM64
> + depends on ARM64
> help
> Enable perf support for the ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling
> Extension, which provides periodic sampling of operations in
> --
> 1.9.1
>