X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=blobdiff_plain;f=init%2FKconfig;h=9e03ef8b311ec303b7fd1f70cc21021620100171;hp=f51586406d622a03728152cd4f5c272433b748f5;hb=26a9ba160f50115ece48198608002600914932a7;hpb=13b5892672073b1169b3b60b8a57123fb32c9df1 diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f515864..9e03ef8 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS Enable kernel support for various performance events provided by software and hardware. - Software events are supported either build-in or via the + Software events are supported either built-in or via the use of generic tracepoints. Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of - these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a + these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those.