1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 04e3aa77da25..50877ef25844 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