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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Xing Gao <xgao01@email.wm.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jessica Frazelle <me@jessfraz.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170208192659.GA32582@beast
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

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