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

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 07/09, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> 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?

Yes, I even mentioned this in 0/3... I'll move thhis note into the
changelog in v2.

Thanks!

Oleg.

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