Re: [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag

[Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>]

On 3/7/2012 4:19 PM, Jason Baron wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:43:02AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Anything based on strcmp is dismal.  VM_ALWAYSDUMP was nice and clean.
>> A hook along the lines of arch_vma_name would be clean enough I suppose.
>> In fact, there is only one instance today (tile) where arch_vma_name()!=NULL
>> wouldn't do just what you need.
>>
> Yeah, so I think something like the following would work (adding Tile
> maintainer to 'cc list).

Thanks!

My instinct would be not to special-case it in always_dump_vma().  Since
it's just a one-page region anyway, and it is at least potentially
interesting, I'm happy to always dump it.  Alternately, we can just get rid
of the "[intrpt]" name, which I just put in to be cute (and since it was
easy to identify the mapping in question).  Regardless, since that region
doesn't exist on our current 64-bit architecture, I'm not too concerned
with how it's handled going forward, since I expect the 32-bit platform to
become less popular over time.  I'd vote for generic code cleanliness.

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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
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