Commit e01292b1 authored Feb 18, 2010 by Heiko Carstens Committed by Frederic Weisbecker Feb 22, 2010

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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100218132521.GB2406@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
[added reference to ptrace.h in the config help]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

parent 952974ac

arch/Kconfig

+5 −0

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	@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS

	config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API		config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
	bool		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		config HAVE_CLK
	bool		bool