x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -502,23 +502,3 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32
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CPU might render the kernel unbootable.
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If unsure, say N.
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config X86_DS
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def_bool X86_PTRACE_BTS
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depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR
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select HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
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config X86_PTRACE_BTS
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bool "Branch Trace Store"
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default y
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depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR
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depends on BROKEN
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---help---
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This adds a ptrace interface to the hardware's branch trace store.
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Debuggers may use it to collect an execution trace of the debugged
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application in order to answer the question 'how did I get here?'.
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Debuggers may trace user mode as well as kernel mode.
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Say Y unless there is no application development on this machine
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and you want to save a small amount of code size.
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