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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>2007-12-03 17:15:52 -0500
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2008-01-26 10:25:17 -0500
commit5de865b4c5af253db19bdae3c0553952dc7eda1d (patch)
tree762fb0ecfa34794e35b1993ce731c679659f5154
parent796969104cab0d454dbc792ad0d12a4f365a8564 (diff)
ARM kprobes: let's enable it
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kprobes.txt1
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index cb12ae175aa2..53a63890aea4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ architectures:
141- ppc64 141- ppc64
142- ia64 (Does not support probes on instruction slot1.) 142- ia64 (Does not support probes on instruction slot1.)
143- sparc64 (Return probes not yet implemented.) 143- sparc64 (Return probes not yet implemented.)
144- arm
144 145
1453. Configuring Kprobes 1463. Configuring Kprobes
146 147
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation b/arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation
index 63b8c6d5606a..453ad8e15d69 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ config OPROFILE_MPCORE
43config OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE 43config OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE
44 bool 44 bool
45 45
46config KPROBES
47 bool "Kprobes"
48 depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES && !UML && !XIP_KERNEL
49 help
50 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
51 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
52 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
53 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
54 If in doubt, say "N".
55
46config MARKERS 56config MARKERS
47 bool "Activate markers" 57 bool "Activate markers"
48 help 58 help