Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip perf/probes 00/10] x86 insn decoder bugfixes and perf-probe syntax changes

[Ingo M. <mi...@el...>]

* Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...> wrote:

> Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>> What we want here is two fold:
>>>>
>>>>     - enable kprobes event support when perf events is enabled and kprobes
>>>>       is enabled. We dont want another config option for it.
>>>
>>> Sure, at least that combination should enable kprobe-tracer forcibly.
>>
>> Hmm, someone may not want to enables kprobe-tracer. Perhaps,
>> "default y if (EVENT_PROFILE)" is enough, isn't it?
>
> Oops, this causes recursive dependency error :-(
>
> kernel/trace/Kconfig:90:error: found recursive dependency: TRACING ->
> EVENT_TRACING -> EVENT_PROFILE -> KPROBE_TRACER -> GENERIC_TRACER -> TRACING

This dependency problem can be resolved by simply making it 'default y' 
- the option itself depends on KPROBES already, which is default-off - 
so no need to also make it depend on EVENT_PROFILE.

btw., it would be nice to re-name it to 'KPROBE_EVENTS'. If the probe 
point is used as a count - like in the __switch_to example i cited - 
there's no tracing going on at all.

	Ingo