MIPS: add support for software performance events
Software events are required as part of the measurable stuff by the
Linux performance counter subsystem. Here is the list of events added by
this patch:
PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS
PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN
PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ
PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS
PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS
Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jamie.iles@picochip.com
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1686/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 8fbbef9..dc81f39 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
select HAVE_IDE
select HAVE_OPROFILE
+ select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST