Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  ftrace: Add function names to dangling } in function graph tracer
  tracing: Simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field
  tracing: Remove unnecessary variable in print_graph_return
  tracing: Fix typo of info text in trace_kprobe.c
  tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable()
  tracing: Remove CONFIG_TRACE_POWER from kernel config
  tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
  ftrace: Remove memory barriers from NMI code when not needed
  tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
  s390: Add pt_regs register and stack access API
  tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic
  tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations
  tracing: Add notrace to TRACE_EVENT implementation functions
  ftrace: Allow to remove a single function from function graph filter
  tracing: Add correct/incorrect to sort keys for branch annotation output
  tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point
  tracing: Drop the tr check from the graph tracing path
  tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set
  tracing: Use appropriate perl constructs in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: optimize recordmcount.pl for offsets-handling
  ...

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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 06a13729c8df..215e46073c45 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -105,6 +105,14 @@ config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
 config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
 	bool
 
+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
 	help