Re: [RESEND][PATCH v5 1/3] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP ininitializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> Currently we fail to include any data on hugepages into coredump,
> because VM_DONTDUMP is set on hugetlbfs's vma. This behavior was recently
> introduced by commit 314e51b98 "mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and
> mm->reserved_vm counter". This looks to me a serious regression,
> so let's fix it.
> 
> ChangeLog v3:
>  - move 'return 0' into a separate patch
> 
> ChangeLog v2:
>  - add 'return 0' in hugepage memory check
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Stable for 3.7+.
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