Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 07:40:55AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
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> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Added more people to the CC list.
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> > Em Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:58:19PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 05:00:50PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > > > We have uses of CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT as
> > > > well as CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS. Consistently
> > > > use the plurals.
> >  
> > > this rename made me notice that UPROBE_EVENTS still defaults to 'n'.
> > > this is key feature that all distros enable, so having default 'n'
> > > is kinda saying that it's not something that should be turned on
> > > or used widely. which is obviously not the case.
> > > imo it's time to change it to 'y'.
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Agreed, I also found it strange that it was disabled by default when I
> > recently did a 'make oldconfig' :-\
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> Agreed, someone please send a patch (or feel free to include it in the perf 
> tooling tree) to switch the default around.

Ok, will collect the agreements as Acked-by tags and put it in
perf/core.

- Arnaldo