Re: [PATCH 2/3] uprobes: use vm_special_mapping to name the xol vma

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Change xol_add_vma() to use _install_special_mapping(), this way
> we can name the vma installed by uprobes. Currently it looks like
> private anonymous mapping, this is confusing and complicates the
> debugging. With this change /proc/$pid/maps reports "[uprobes]".

I think this will cause core dumps to include it as a side effect.  Is
that okay?

--Andy
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