Re: [patch 02/26] Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu

Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-01-24T21:28:58Z

* Russell King (rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk) wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > The conflicting commit for
> > move-kconfiginstrumentation-to-arch-kconfig-and-init-kconfig.patch
> > is the ARM fix from Linus :
> >
> > commit 38ad9aebe70dc72df08851bbd1620d89329129ba
>
> Since we have changes which depend on the location of these options,
> please hold off until the ARM tree merges in the next window:
>

Can you add me to the CC list of this patch please ?

> ----------------------- arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation -----------------------
> index 63b8c6d..453ad8e 100644
> @@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ config OPROFILE_MPCORE
> config OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE
> bool
>
> +config KPROBES
> + bool "Kprobes"
> + depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES && !UML && !XIP_KERNEL
> + help
> + Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
> + execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
> + a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
> + for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
> + If in doubt, say "N".
> +
> config MARKERS
> bool "Activate markers"
> help
>
>
> --
> Russell King
> Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/