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authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>2018-08-22 07:55:20 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 20:52:46 +0300
commit23c85094fe1895caefdd19ef624ee687ec5f4507 (patch)
tree13a0d0b93980e585384310a021b3772dc37b9e54 /fs/proc/Kconfig
parenteff4345e7fba0aac8665f00e8599b36946d9aaec (diff)
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proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore
The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just for crash dumps. A lot of this information can be determined by other means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most to the file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index 0eaeb41453f5..817c02b13b1d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config PROC_FS
config PROC_KCORE
bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+ select CRASH_CORE
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