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| author | Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> | 2018-08-21 21:55:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 10:52:46 -0700 |
| commit | 23c85094fe1895caefdd19ef624ee687ec5f4507 (patch) | |
| tree | 13a0d0b93980e585384310a021b3772dc37b9e54 /fs/proc/Kconfig | |
| parent | eff4345e7fba0aac8665f00e8599b36946d9aaec (diff) | |
proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore
The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just
for crash dumps. A lot of this information can be determined by other
means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most
to the file.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig index 0eaeb41453f5..817c02b13b1d 100644 --- a/fs/proc/Kconfig +++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config PROC_FS config PROC_KCORE bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM depends on PROC_FS && MMU + select CRASH_CORE 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 |