From 1c3fc3e5cc8a81d21b199cb739d5d9c51f3688f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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 <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: <lailavrazda1979@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 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"
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