linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/perf: Remove ARM_SPE_PMU explicit PERF

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Message-ID: <20180522160857.43a4ktp65inpotfr@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 May 2018 17:08:57 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     will.deacon@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/perf: Remove ARM_SPE_PMU explicit PERF_EVENTS
 dependency

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:54:04PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Since commit bddb9b68d3fb ("drivers/perf: commonise PERF_EVENTS
> dependency"), all perf drivers depend on PERF_EVENTS config under a
> common menu.
> 
> Config ARM_SPE_PMU still declares explicitly a dependency on
> PERF_EVENTS, which is unneeded, so remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Will, I assume that you will queue this.

Mark.

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/Kconfig b/drivers/perf/Kconfig
> index 28bb5a0..90ce4da 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/perf/Kconfig
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ config XGENE_PMU
>  
>  config ARM_SPE_PMU
>  	tristate "Enable support for the ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling Extension"
> -	depends on PERF_EVENTS && ARM64
> +	depends on ARM64
>  	help
>  	  Enable perf support for the ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling
>  	  Extension, which provides periodic sampling of operations in
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>