From b75180e3bf894488c4ab036c19f982e3ecfb2e66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:25:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 182311 b: refs/heads/master c:
 e01292b1fd68ff2abe234d584b06e64344d2c1de h: refs/heads/master i:   182309:
 29c460c3501b47fcb22cb997433c1b976b3fff6b   182307:
 d00963317c31eeef918ef96ff70069bbfdfdcac0   182303:
 db7f0c74fa7a7a43314d9d92df4613ac66c36d97 v: v3

---
 [refs]             | 2 +-
 trunk/arch/Kconfig | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index b37e9bda5628..3b985831b83c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 952974ac61f686896bd4134dae106a886a5589f1
+refs/heads/master: e01292b1fd68ff2abe234d584b06e64344d2c1de
diff --git a/trunk/arch/Kconfig b/trunk/arch/Kconfig
index 04e3aa77da25..50877ef25844 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/trunk/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