[PATCH v2] kcore: add Kconfig help text

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Nov 07 2013 - 11:29:02 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@xxxxxxxxx
---
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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