From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
To: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.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 11:43:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307194302.7BD142C0C3@topped-with-meat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jason Baron's message of Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:50:37 -0500 <20120307185035.GA2409@redhat.com>
> 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.
Thanks,
Roland
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From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
To: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, avi@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:43:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307194302.7BD142C0C3@topped-with-meat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jason Baron's message of Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:50:37 -0500 <20120307185035.GA2409@redhat.com>
> 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.
Thanks,
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ 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 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-03-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag Jason Baron
2012-03-07 17:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-03-07 17:59 ` Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 17:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 18:50 ` Jason Baron
2012-03-07 18:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-03-07 19:43 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2012-03-07 19:43 ` Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 21:19 ` Jason Baron
2012-03-07 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-03-07 21:26 ` Chris Metcalf
2012-03-07 21:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Metcalf
2012-03-07 21:36 ` Jason Baron
2012-03-07 21:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-03-07 21:41 ` Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 21:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Roland McGrath
2012-03-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] core dump: add a new VM_DONTDUMP flag Jason Baron
2012-03-07 17:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-03-07 22:30 ` [PATCH 0/2] core dump: re-purpose VM_ALWAYSDUMP to user controlled VM_DONTDUMP Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 1:32 ` Jason Baron
2012-03-08 1:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Baron
2012-04-23 22:42 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-04-23 22:42 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-04-27 18:43 ` Jason Baron
2012-04-27 18:43 ` Jason Baron
2012-04-28 7:29 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-04-28 7:29 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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