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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2007-01-26 00:56:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-01-26 13:50:58 -0800 |
| commit | 3a0cfadb42e0a6dd221aa49232a65d2771063285 (patch) | |
| tree | 919afa79ccd7f8132eef93304fa7264bedec5f8b /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | e03f0ca11645ce69a4defcd4f60a5cb2d5e30507 (diff) | |
[PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP
This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c index a4b28c73bba0..ae0ede19879d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c @@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, * pages though */ vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC; + /* + * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump. + * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later + * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see + * what PC values meant. + */ + vma->vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP; vma->vm_flags |= mm->def_flags; vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vma->vm_flags & 0x7]; vma->vm_ops = &vdso_vmops; |