linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Allow the user not to build hw

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Message-ID: <4DB854AA.6070101@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:38:50 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Allow the user not to build hw_breakpoints

On 04/27/2011 09:59 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> So that hw_breakpoints and perf can be not built on
> specific embedded systems.

How big of a win, if any, is this, really?

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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