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x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code

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Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 14:51:50 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 7c5ecaf766
commit faa4602e47
34 changed files with 9 additions and 3269 deletions
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@ -224,11 +224,6 @@ unsigned __kprobes long oops_begin(void)
int cpu;
unsigned long flags;
/* notify the hw-branch tracer so it may disable tracing and
add the last trace to the trace buffer -
the earlier this happens, the more useful the trace. */
trace_hw_branch_oops();
oops_enter();
/* racy, but better than risking deadlock. */