linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] arm64: don't select PERF_USE

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Message-Id: <20160830140839.75e0689719bf884c9e38e5e4@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:08:39 -0500
From:   Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: don't select PERF_USE_VMALLOC by default

Any arm64 based parts that have cache aliasing issues can set it
manually.  Apparently dragged in from ARM(32) defaults in commit
8c2c3df "arm64: Build infrastructure".

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index bc3f00f..2e6874f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ config ARM64
 	select OF_NUMA if NUMA && OF
 	select OF_RESERVED_MEM
 	select PCI_ECAM if ACPI
-	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
 	select POWER_RESET
 	select POWER_SUPPLY
 	select SPARSE_IRQ
-- 
2.9.3