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 <[email protected]> Reported-by: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
iegor · Nov 13, 2013 · 1c3fc3e · 1c3fc3e
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diff --git 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"