Subject: + kcore-add-kconfig-help-text.patch added to -mm tree
To: rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx,lailavrazda1979@xxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:39:25 -0800
The patch titled
Subject: kcore: add Kconfig help text
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kcore-add-kconfig-help-text.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kcore-add-kconfig-help-text.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kcore-add-kconfig-help-text.patch
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: <lailavrazda1979@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/Kconfig | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/proc/Kconfig~kcore-add-kconfig-help-text fs/proc/Kconfig
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig~kcore-add-kconfig-help-text
+++ a/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"
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
drm-nouveau-make-vga_switcheroo-code-depend-on-vga_switcheroo-fix.patch
hpet-allow-user-controlled-mmap-for-user-processes.patch
kernel-doc-improve-no-structured-comments-found-error.patch
kcore-add-kconfig-help-text.patch
linux-next.patch
debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2.patch
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