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| author | Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> | 2021-01-14 14:35:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> | 2021-01-29 07:36:24 +0300 |
| commit | f8408264c77a0cebb20244d1f4750501b36abe0e (patch) | |
| tree | 1e3f4b7a0d03f7a10b49e22a43b42561646c7887 /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | a848bf1d9ef14fa45b65f402d7d439626aad4877 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f8408264c77a0cebb20244d1f4750501b36abe0e.tar.xz | |
drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.
Remove kernel's old oprofile support.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 9e3cdb271d06..e860c681766b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3458,20 +3458,6 @@ For example, to override I2C bus2: omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 - oprofile.timer= [HW] - Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters - - oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type - This might be useful if you have an older oprofile - userland or if you want common events. - Format: { arch_perfmon } - arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural - perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the - CPU specific event set. - timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI - timer mode (see also oprofile.timer - for generic hr timer mode) - oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process, but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine. |