[PATCH] i386 vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP
authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:56:49 +0000 (00:56 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:50:58 +0000 (13:50 -0800)
commitf47aef55d9a18945fcdd7fd6bf01121ce973b91b
tree69f5f6c1fd4ae27d18344ae4b33b5c7bd4b18699
parente5b97dde514f9bd43f9e525451d0a863c4fc8a9a
[PATCH] i386 vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP

This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now.
It removes the special-case core writing macros, which were not doing the
right thing for the vDSO vma anyway.  Instead, it uses VM_ALWAYSDUMP in the
vma; there is no need for the fixmap page to be installed.  It handles the
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO case by making elf_core_dump use the fake vma from
get_gate_vma after real vmas in the same way the /proc/PID/maps code does.

This changes core dumps so they no longer include the non-PT_LOAD phdrs from
the vDSO.  I made the change to add them in the first place, but in turned out
that nothing ever wanted them there since the advent of NT_AUXV.  It's cleaner
to leave them out, and just let the phdrs inside the vDSO image speak for
themselves.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c
include/asm-i386/elf.h
mm/memory.c