Re: vvar, gup && coredump

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Thursday, March 12 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

>> gdb will still need changes, though, right?
>
> This is up to gdb developers. To me, it should simply skip this
> VM_DONTDUMP vma.

If I understood this discussion correctly (and thanks Andy and Oleg for,
*ahem*, dumping all this useful information for us!), GDB will not need
modifications in the Linux kernel in this area.  In fact, my patch
already implements the "ignore VM_DONTDUMP mappings" part, so we're
pretty much covered.

Thanks,

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