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| author |   Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> | 2007-12-03 17:15:52 -0500 |
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| committer |   Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2008-01-26 15:25:17 +0000 |
| commit | 5de865b4c5af253db19bdae3c0553952dc7eda1d (patch) | |
| tree | 762fb0ecfa34794e35b1993ce731c679659f5154 | |
| parent | ARM kprobes: special hook for the kprobes breakpoint handler (diff) | |
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ARM kprobes: let's enable it
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kprobes.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation | 10 |
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: - ppc64 - ia64 (Does not support probes on instruction slot1.) - sparc64 (Return probes not yet implemented.) +- arm 3. Configuring Kprobes 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 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 |