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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2013-11-12 15:11:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-13 12:09:33 +0900
commit1c3fc3e5cc8a81d21b199cb739d5d9c51f3688f4 (patch)
tree6bd3cd37efd0bcd750c894e3d4d6c383e4897efd
parent5721cf84d9d8d41915f77dd639969b7fa91b6a79 (diff)
kcore: add Kconfig help text
Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help. Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671 Thanks for David Howells for the help text. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reported-by: <lailavrazda1979@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index 15af6222f8a4..2183fcf41d59 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ config PROC_FS
config PROC_KCORE
bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+ help
+ Provides a virtual ELF core file of the live kernel. This can
+ be read with gdb and other ELF tools. No modifications can be
+ made using this mechanism.
config PROC_VMCORE
bool "/proc/vmcore support"