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FS#70299 - [linux] Please enable CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Carsten Haitzler (raster) - Monday, 05 April 2021, 11:56 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Monday, 05 April 2021, 12:50 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Could you please enable CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING (CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING=y). Ubuntu kernels offer this out of the box. It's very useful for system profiling - especially hot memory pages. I'm working on some user-facing tools that make this much simpler and without this being on by default in kernels, this makes the feature essentially inaccessible as 99% of people will not want to install a custom kernel.The fact it's available in art least one other major distro "out of the box" suggests it's not an issue having it on by default.

Additional info:

It'd be nice if next kernel release you could just flip this to y.

Steps to reproduce:

N/A
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Monday, 05 April 2021, 12:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Enabled in trunk, pending next release.

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