[PATCH] Always enable mmiotrace when building x86 kernels

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Aug 4 10:00:56 UTC 2015


mmiotrace uses the ftrace framework for dynamic patching, so enabling it
does not cause any performance impact.

Having mmiotrace enabled is very useful for debugging nvidia / nouveau
driver problems, as we often use mmiotraces for nouveau development /
debugging.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
---
 config-x86-generic | 1 +
 kernel.spec        | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config-x86-generic b/config-x86-generic
index 9ba3354..eb78690 100644
--- a/config-x86-generic
+++ b/config-x86-generic
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ CONFIG_CAPI_EICON=y
 #
 CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
 # CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP is not set
+CONFIG_MMIOTRACE=y
 # CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is not set
 CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 4ccceec..cdb59d4 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -2025,6 +2025,9 @@ fi
 # 
 %changelog
 * Tue Aug 04 2015 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
+- Always enable mmiotrace when building x86 kernels
+
+* Tue Aug 04 2015 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
 - Move joydev.ko from kernel-modules-extra to kernel-modules
 
 * Mon Aug 03 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
-- 
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