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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>
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@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ config IA64_MCA_RECOVERY
config PERFMON
bool "Performance monitor support"
depends on BROKEN
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Selects whether support for the IA-64 performance monitor hardware
is included in the kernel. This makes some kernel data-structures a