Merge branch 'x86/pebs' into x86/unify-cpu-detect

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
	include/asm-x86/ds.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index ab77d409fee0..1b29d6a87563 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -477,3 +477,21 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32
         depends on !64BIT
         help
           This enables extended support for UMC processors
+
+config X86_DS
+        bool "Debug Store support"
+        default y
+        help
+          Add support for Debug Store.
+          This allows the kernel to provide a memory buffer to the hardware
+          to store various profiling and tracing events.
+
+config X86_PTRACE_BTS
+        bool "ptrace interface to Branch Trace Store"
+        default y
+        depends on (X86_DS && X86_DEBUGCTLMSR)
+        help
+          Add a ptrace interface to allow collecting an execution trace
+          of the traced task.
+          This collects control flow changes in a (cyclic) buffer and allows
+          debuggers to fill in the gaps and show an execution trace of the debuggee.