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Re: vvar, gup && coredump
- From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat dot com>
- To: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital dot net>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, "linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org" <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:08:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: vvar, gup && coredump
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On 03/12, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Well. Speaking of vdso. I understand that unlikely we can do this, but
> > for uprobes it would be nice to have a anon-inode file behind this mapping,
> > so that vma_interval_tree_foreach() could work, etc. OK, this is completely
> > off-topic, please forget.
>
> Couldn't you do that directly in the uprobes code? That is, create an
> anon_inode file and just map it the old-fashioned way?
This won't help. Uprobes wants this file mmaped by all applications, so
that build_map_info() can find mm's, vma's, etc to install the system-wide
breakpoint. But again, this is off-topic and unlikely possible.
Oleg.