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From: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, avi@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:50:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307185035.GA2409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=4xhrVbjSiMOA=SyQ_SMROm6uWd3a-b4j987wYsJzMD7pm3g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:59:58AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> wrote:
> > +       if (vma_name) {
> > +               if ((strcmp(vma_name, "[vdso]") == 0) ||
> > +                   (strcmp(vma_name, "[vectors]") == 0) ||
> > +                   (strcmp(vma_name, "[vsyscall]") == 0))
> 
> That's just disgusting.

well, sure, we can provide an arch interface, for this check. I'm more
concerned with the general idea. If it seems ok, I can re-do this bit
with an arch interface.

Thanks,

-Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07 17:00 [PATCH 0/2] core dump: re-purpose VM_ALWAYSDUMP to user controlled VM_DONTDUMP Jason Baron
2012-03-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag Jason Baron
2012-03-07 17:59   ` Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 18:50     ` Jason Baron [this message]
2012-03-07 19:43       ` Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 21:19         ` Jason Baron
2012-03-07 21:26           ` Chris Metcalf
2012-03-07 21:36             ` Jason Baron
2012-03-07 21:41           ` Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] core dump: add a new VM_DONTDUMP flag Jason Baron
2012-03-07 22:30 ` [PATCH 0/2] core dump: re-purpose VM_ALWAYSDUMP to user controlled VM_DONTDUMP Andrew Morton
2012-03-08  1:32   ` Jason Baron
2012-04-23 22:42 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-04-27 18:43   ` Jason Baron
2012-04-28  7:29     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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