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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic


Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19:54AM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>> For now it is stored is asm/ptrace.h, but that might be split in
>>> the future, especially as ptrace has initially nothing related to
>>> that. A documentation that deals with filenames or API enumerations
>>> tend to be incidentally async with API evolutions.
>>
>> yeah, now those APIs depend on pt_regs, so I put it in ptrace.h.
>>
>> Thank you,
>
>
> Are you guys fine with the following patch or should I bring
> more details somewhere?

I'm fine with it :-)

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>


>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> commit d3643132cfeac24ee20d2b6cd8cb06d73e6a6da9
> Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu Feb 18 14:25:21 2010 +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@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: 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>
>
> 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
>
>

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com



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