From: Steven Rostedt Both event tracer and sched switch plugin are selected by default by all generic tracers. But if no generic tracer is enabled, their options appear. But ether one of them will select the other, thus it only makes sense to have the default tracers be selected by one option. [ Impact: clean up kconfig menu ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/Kconfig | 19 +++---------------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 6e55cc3..4a13e5a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -192,27 +192,14 @@ config SCHED_TRACER This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. -config ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER - bool "Trace process context switches" - depends on !GENERIC_TRACER - select TRACING - select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER - help - This tracer gets called from the context switch and records - all switching of tasks. - -config ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING - bool "Trace various events in the kernel" +config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS + bool "Trace process context switches and events" depends on !GENERIC_TRACER select TRACING help This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they - want to trace. - - Note, all tracers enable event tracing. This option is - only a convenience to enable event tracing when no other - tracers are selected. + want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. config FTRACE_SYSCALLS bool "Trace syscalls" -- 1.6.3.1 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/