ARM: 5900/2: arm: enable support for software perf events
The perf events subsystem allows counting of both hardware and
software events. This patch implements the bare minimum for software
performance events.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 9e08891..74d1e76 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
select HAVE_KRETPROBES if (HAVE_KPROBES)
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL)
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
+ select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
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