perf: Enable user and kernel event sharing
The kernel and the user-space are now able to share the similar events.
The kernel and user's attr->type (hardware/raw) and attr->config should
be same for them to share the same counter.
Change-Id: I4a4b35bde6beaf8f2aef74e683a9804e31807013
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 7b3006a..d4a2e32 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1869,6 +1869,16 @@
Say Y if unsure.
+config PERF_USER_SHARE
+ bool "Perf event sharing with user-space"
+ help
+ Say yes here to enable the user-space sharing of events. The events
+ can be shared among other user-space events or with kernel created
+ events that has the same config and type event attributes.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+
config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
default n
bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"