* [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text
@ 2013-11-07 5:51 Randy Dunlap
2013-11-07 15:57 ` David Howells
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2013-11-07 5:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML; +Cc: Andrew Morton, David Howells, Al Viro, lailavrazda1979
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help,
so add some.
Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@gmail.com
---
Would anyone like to expand on this help text?
Thanks.
fs/proc/Kconfig | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- lnx-312.orig/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ lnx-312/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ config PROC_FS
config PROC_KCORE
bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+ help
+ Exports kernel core in ELF format.
config PROC_VMCORE
bool "/proc/vmcore support"
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* Re: [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text
2013-11-07 5:51 [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text Randy Dunlap
@ 2013-11-07 15:57 ` David Howells
2013-11-07 16:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Randy Dunlap
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2013-11-07 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Randy Dunlap; +Cc: dhowells, LKML, Andrew Morton, Al Viro, lailavrazda1979
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> + Exports kernel core in ELF format.
"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."
maybe?
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* [PATCH v2] kcore: add Kconfig help text
2013-11-07 15:57 ` David Howells
@ 2013-11-07 16:28 ` Randy Dunlap
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2013-11-07 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Howells; +Cc: LKML, Andrew Morton, Al Viro, lailavrazda1979
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"
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