ARM: 5900/2: arm: enable support for software perf events

The perf events subsystem allows counting of both hardware and
software events. This patch implements the bare minimum for software
performance events.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 9e08891062bf..74d1e767f0b7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ config ARM
         select HAVE_KRETPROBES if (HAVE_KPROBES)
         select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL)
         select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
+        select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+        select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
         help
           The ARM series is a line of low-power-consumption RISC chip designs
           licensed by ARM Ltd and targeted at embedded applications and