drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:35:30 +0000 (17:05 +0530)
committerViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:36:24 +0000 (10:06 +0530)
commitf8408264c77a0cebb20244d1f4750501b36abe0e
tree1e3f4b7a0d03f7a10b49e22a43b42561646c7887
parenta848bf1d9ef14fa45b65f402d7d439626aad4877
drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support

The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.

Remove kernel's old oprofile support.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
24 files changed:
Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/process/magic-number.rst
Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/magic-number.rst
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/magic-number.rst
MAINTAINERS
arch/Kconfig
drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.h [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.h [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprof.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprof.h [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprofile_perf.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprofile_stats.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprofile_stats.h [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c [deleted file]
drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c [deleted file]
include/linux/oprofile.h [deleted file]
init/Kconfig