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* [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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