Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into core/locking

Merge reason: we were on -rc4, move to -rc8 before applying
              a new batch of locking infrastructure changes.

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

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index cb2c09270226..3f7e60995c80 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ menu "Performance Counters"
 
 config PERF_COUNTERS
         bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
+        default y if PROFILING
         depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
         select ANON_INODES
         help
@@ -961,9 +962,17 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS
           Say Y if unsure.
 
 config EVENT_PROFILE
-        bool "Tracepoint profile sources"
+        bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
         depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING
         default y
+        help
+         Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters.
+
+         When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on
+         tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
+         found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
+         option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
+         tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
 
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