Commit-ID: e01292b1fd68ff2abe234d584b06e64344d2c1de Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e01292b1fd68ff2abe234d584b06e64344d2c1de Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:25:21 +0100 Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:05:51 +0100 tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API So that arch developers know how to implement it without the need to dig into changelogs. Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> LKML-Reference: <20100218132521.GB2406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [added reference to ptrace.h in the config help] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/Kconfig | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 04e3aa7..50877ef 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API bool + help + This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports + the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, + declared in asm/ptrace.h + For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. config HAVE_CLK bool -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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