linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] kcore: add Kconfig help text

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Message-ID: <527BBFC4.4020307@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:28:52 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, lailavrazda1979@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] kcore: add Kconfig help text

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

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@...radead.org>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@...il.com
---
 fs/proc/Kconfig |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- lnx-312.orig/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ lnx-312/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"
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