From b15bc24ec9fa274442a8973235c6518934aab310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:15:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 116691 b: refs/heads/master c:
 4519d9e54dcd273975ad0adebad2a08c20428029 h: refs/heads/master i:   116689:
 a5db6ec2f9ee00657429739604a522cd8f7b3a47   116687:
 f05ad235ce0836d1a3ef8a529a0ebc0769e03f98 v: v3

---
 [refs]                     |  2 +-
 trunk/kernel/trace/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9c6d1066d23c..192fe771c989 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 07d1890420cce95c577736e4d67f70cbd39845fe
+refs/heads/master: 4519d9e54dcd273975ad0adebad2a08c20428029
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/trunk/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 396aea11398e..11fd03a429f0 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/trunk/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -141,8 +141,17 @@ config STACK_TRACER
 	select FTRACE
 	select STACKTRACE
 	help
-	  This tracer records the max stack of the kernel, and displays
-	  it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace
+	  This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
+	  kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace.
+
+	  This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
+	  kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
+	  stack-trace saved. Because this logic has to execute in every
+	  kernel function, all the time, this option can slow down the
+	  kernel measurably and is generally intended for kernel
+	  developers only.
+
+	  Say N if unsure.
 
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"