From: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@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 <rdun...@infradead.org>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1...@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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