ia64: disable CONFIG_PERFMON at least for now

Al noted that the semantics of the ia64 perfmon mmap() is really wrong,
and can cause serious VM problems.  Before we look at whether it needs
to be fixed, let's see if anybody even uses it, and mark it broken.  It
may be that we can just remove the code entirely.

Reported-by: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index 792437d526c65e68253b3df174c44553a89d13ef..ff861420b8f56c51dfa5133d8a0266a67027734c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ config IA64_MCA_RECOVERY
 
 config PERFMON
        bool "Performance monitor support"
+       depends on BROKEN
        help
          Selects whether support for the IA-64 performance monitor hardware
          is included in the kernel.  This makes some kernel data-structures a