x86/oprofile: add CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS option

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index b0fabfa864ff..2651af48b2e5 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -13,6 +13,20 @@ config OPROFILE
 
           If unsure, say N.
 
+config OPROFILE_IBS
+        bool "OProfile AMD IBS support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+        default n
+        depends on OPROFILE && SMP && X86
+        help
+          Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) is a new profiling
+          technique that provides rich, precise program performance
+          information. IBS is introduced by AMD Family10h processors
+          (AMD Opteron Quad-Core processor “Barcelona”) to overcome
+          the limitations of conventional performance counter
+          sampling.
+
+          If unsure, say N.
+
 config HAVE_OPROFILE
         def_bool n