tracing: Remove ksym tracer

The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf
tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints.
This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated
for a while now, lets remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2010-07-15 23:27:35 +02:00
parent 86a8c63f75
commit 5d550467b9
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@@ -308,28 +308,6 @@ config BRANCH_TRACER
Say N if unsure.
config KSYM_TRACER
bool "Trace read and write access on kernel memory locations"
depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
select TRACING
help
This tracer helps find read and write operations on any given kernel
symbol i.e. /proc/kallsyms.
config PROFILE_KSYM_TRACER
bool "Profile all kernel memory accesses on 'watched' variables"
depends on KSYM_TRACER
help
This tracer profiles kernel accesses on variables watched through the
ksym tracer ftrace plugin. Depending upon the hardware, all read
and write operations on kernel variables can be monitored for
accesses.
The results will be displayed in:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_ksym
Say N if unsure.
config STACK_TRACER
bool "Trace max stack"
depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER