From dfb4357da6ddbdf57d583ba64361c9d792b0e0b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 11:26:59 -0800 Subject: time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS Currently CONFIG_TIMER_STATS exposes process information across namespaces: kernel/time/timer_list.c print_timer(): SEQ_printf(m, ", %s/%d", tmp, timer->start_pid); /proc/timer_list: #11: <0000000000000000>, hrtimer_wakeup, S:01, do_nanosleep, cron/2570 Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: John Stultz Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Xing Gao Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Jessica Frazelle Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: Nicolas Iooss Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arjan van de Ven Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170208192659.GA32582@beast Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index eb9e9a7870fa..132af338d6dd 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -980,20 +980,6 @@ config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING If unsure, say N. -config TIMER_STATS - bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS - help - If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the - timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being - reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. - The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, - writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information - about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature - is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated - (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated - if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). - config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT -- cgit