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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
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--- a/init/Kconfig
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@@ -934,6 +934,40 @@ config AIO
           by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
           this option saves about 7k.
 
+config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+	bool
+
+menu "Performance Counters"
+
+config PERF_COUNTERS
+	bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
+	depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+	select ANON_INODES
+	help
+	  Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+
+	  Performance counters are special hardware registers available
+	  on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
+	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
+	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
+	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
+	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
+	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
+
+	  The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
+	  these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
+	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
+	  capabilities on top of those.
+
+	  Say Y if unsure.
+
+config EVENT_PROFILE
+	bool "Tracepoint profile sources"
+	depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACER
+	default y
+
+endmenu
+
 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
 	default y
 	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED