Re: [PATCH 6/7] proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/dump file

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 01:57:09AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:47:44PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > An image read from file contains task's registers and information
> > about its VM. Later this image can be execve-ed causing recreation
> > of the previously read task state.
> > 
> > The file format is my own, very simple. Introduced to make the code
> > as simple as possible. Better file format (if any) is to be discussed.
> 
> I think file format should be per-binfmt, similar to core dump. So it will
> be ELF with ELF binary. Core dumper code can be reused in some way.
> 

Don't think so. We could push all data into PT_LOAD, still the restore
procedure is different from how elf loader works so I don't want
at all to change kernel's elf handler code (if I understand you right,
that is what you propose?). In real we tried to isolate the changes
we bring as much as possible.

	Cyrill