[PATCH] Always enable mmiotrace when building x86 kernels

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 4 13:51:04 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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>

Applied.

josh

> ---
>  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>
> --
> 2.4.3
>
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