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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	libdc1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: mmap'ed memory in core files ?
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:30:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080702133013.GA1848@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080702105027.GA1111@frolo.macqel>

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:50:27PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Unfortunately, the part that applies to me (I have tested it) is the next one :
> 
>     Memory-mapped I/O pages such as frame buffer are never dumped, [...],
>     regardless of the coredump_filter value.
> 
> Is that a design decision, or a mere finding of the way it is implemented
> now ?

It's an implementation issue, and there are patches queue for 2.6.27
that allow gdb access to these regions, which should be easily
extendable to cover core dumps, too.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-02 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 13:21 mmap'ed memory in core files ? Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-01 18:16 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-07-01 21:44   ` Bron Gondwana
2008-07-02  5:14     ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-07-02  6:35       ` Rob Mueller
2008-07-02 11:07         ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 11:52           ` Bron Gondwana
2008-07-02 10:50   ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-02 10:58     ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-07-02 11:04       ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-02 12:24         ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-02 13:16           ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-03  3:51       ` Hidehiro Kawai
2008-07-03  9:22         ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-04  5:50           ` Hidehiro Kawai
2008-07-04  6:33             ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-04 11:25               ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-04 14:29               ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-04 11:13             ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-03  9:37         ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-03 16:52           ` [PATCH] ieee1394 : dump mmapped video1394 buffers in core files Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-04 18:33             ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-04 20:49               ` Philippe De Muyter
2008-07-02 13:30     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-07-02 11:01   ` mmap'ed memory in core files ? Philippe De Muyter

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