From patchwork Thu Jan 3 07:50:01 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [1/3] Add Perf tools support Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:50:01 -0000 From: Kaiwan Billimoria X-Patchwork-Id: 209190 Message-Id: To: buildroot@busybox.net Signed-off-by: Kaiwan Billimoria --- linux/Config.in | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) source "linux/Config.ext.in" diff --git a/linux/Config.in b/linux/Config.in index 9ebe0c9..cb52ecf 100644 --- a/linux/Config.in +++ b/linux/Config.in @@ -284,6 +284,17 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET /boot in the target root filesystem, as is typically done on x86/x86_64 systems. +config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USERMODE_TOOLS_PERF + bool "perf" + help + perf (aka "Perf Events" or perf tools, originally "Performance Counters + for Linux") - is a performance analyzing tool in Linux. The user-space + controlling utility, called 'perf' has a git-like interface with subcommands. + It is capable of statistical profiling of entire system (both kernel and + user code), single CPU or severals threads. + + https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page + # Linux extensions