Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint

Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 5efeb4229ea..06c3d5be675 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -11,12 +11,18 @@ config NOP_TRACER
 
 config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
         bool
+        help
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
         bool
+        help
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
         bool
+        help
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
         bool
@@ -28,21 +34,25 @@ config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
         bool
         help
-         This gets selected when the arch tests the function_trace_stop
-         variable at the mcount call site. Otherwise, this variable
-         is tested by the called function.
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
         bool
+        help
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
         bool
+        help
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
         bool
 
 config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
         bool
+        help
+          See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
 
 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
         bool
@@ -73,7 +83,7 @@ config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
 # This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
 # options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
 # GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
-# hidding of the automatic options options.
+# hidding of the automatic options.
 
 config TRACING
         bool
@@ -490,6 +500,18 @@ config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
           functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
           tracers of ftrace.
 
+config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
+        bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
+        depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
+        help
+         This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
+         It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
+         with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
+         up since it runs this on every system call defined.
+
+         TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
+               events
+
 config MMIOTRACE
         bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
         depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI