Re: [PATCH] docs, kprobes: Fix the wrong location of Kprobes

From: Tiezhu Yang
Date: Thu Sep 29 2022 - 06:01:16 EST




On 09/27/2022 02:22 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:55:06 +0800
Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After commit 22471e1313f2 ("kconfig: use a menu in arch/Kconfig to reduce
clutter"), the location of Kprobes is under "General architecture-dependent
options" rather than "General setup".


Probably add a "Fixes:" tag for the above mentioned commit.

Anyway, Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Thank you.

Do you know which tree this patch will go through?
Is it necessary to send v2 with "Fixes:" tag?

Thanks,
Tiezhu


-- Steve


Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
index f318bce..48cf778 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ Configuring Kprobes
===================

When configuring the kernel using make menuconfig/xconfig/oldconfig,
-ensure that CONFIG_KPROBES is set to "y". Under "General setup", look
-for "Kprobes".
+ensure that CONFIG_KPROBES is set to "y", look for "Kprobes" under
+"General architecture-dependent options".

So that you can load and unload Kprobes-based instrumentation modules,
make sure "Loadable module support" (CONFIG_MODULES) and "Module