From 1c3fc3e5cc8a81d21b199cb739d5d9c51f3688f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:11:16 -0800 Subject: 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 Reported-by: Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/proc') 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" -- cgit v1.2.3