diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
index 7b7679418f35aa89928cb82dd75a7811246245af..09e974392fa119f09ef2790e63d58410b5367e4a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
 CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
 CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
 CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
 CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
 # CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y