From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix vsyscall page in core dumps
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:12:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031003021251.627dd922.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310030156.h931uZhL015129@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> My change to core dumps that was included with the vsyscall DSO
> implementation had a bug (braino on my part). Core dumps don't include the
> full page of the vsyscall DSO, and so don't accurately represent the whole
> memory image of the process. This patch fixes it. I have tested it on
> x86, but not tested the same change to 32-bit core dumps on AMD64 (haven't
> even compiled on AMD64).
>
> I've also included the corresponding change for the IA64 code that was
> copied blindly from the x86 vsyscall implementation, which looks like more
> change than it is since I preserved the formatting of the copied code
> instead of arbitrarily diddling it along with the trivial symbol name
> changes.
How does one test it?
> I haven't compiled or tested on ia64.
I have. GATE_BASE is undefined. Replacing it with GATE_ADDR makes it
build OK, but that's all I can say.
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2003-10-03 1:56 Roland McGrath
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