From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
lailavrazda1979@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] kcore: add Kconfig help text
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:28:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527BBFC4.4020307@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15490.1383839848@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.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@infradead.org>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@gmail.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"
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-07 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 5:51 [PATCH] " Randy Dunlap
2013-11-07 15:57 ` David Howells
2013-11-07 16:28 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
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