Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758941AbYAXV26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756146AbYAXV2u (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:50 -0500 Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.93]:54054 "EHLO tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757010AbYAXV2t (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:49 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAPiRmEdMQWYq/2dsb2JhbACBV61k Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:23:43 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Russell King Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , ananth@in.ibm.com, dhowells@redhat.com, jdike@addtoit.com, sam@ravnborg.org, Adrian Bunk , Randy Dunlap , phil.el@wanadoo.fr, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [patch 02/26] Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu Message-ID: <20080124212343.GB2181@Krystal> References: <20080124202706.250598537@polymtl.ca> <20080124203333.128025422@polymtl.ca> <20080124211259.GA10388@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080124211259.GA10388@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 16:22:50 up 82 days, 2:28, 6 users, load average: 0.04, 0.32, 0.62 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1692 Lines: 49 * 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/ > maintainer of: -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/