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| author | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> | 2013-11-13 03:11:16 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-11-13 07:09:33 +0400 |
| commit | 1c3fc3e5cc8a81d21b199cb739d5d9c51f3688f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6bd3cd37efd0bcd750c894e3d4d6c383e4897efd | |
| parent | 5721cf84d9d8d41915f77dd639969b7fa91b6a79 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1c3fc3e5cc8a81d21b199cb739d5d9c51f3688f4.tar.xz | |
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/Kconfig | 4 |
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" |