alistair23-linux/arch/um
Daisuke HATAYAMA 8d9032bbe4 elf coredump: add extended numbering support
The current ELF dumper implementation can produce broken corefiles if
program headers exceed 65535.  This number is determined by the number of
vmas which the process have.  In particular, some extreme programs may use
more than 65535 vmas.  (If you google max_map_count, you can find some
users facing this problem.) This kind of program never be able to generate
correct coredumps.

This patch implements ``extended numbering'' that uses sh_info field of
the first section header instead of e_phnum field in order to represent
upto 4294967295 vmas.

This is supported by
AMD64-ABI(http://www.x86-64.org/documentation.html) and
Solaris(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/).
Of course, we are preparing patches for gdb and binutils.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
..
drivers uml: line.c: avoid NULL pointer dereference 2010-03-06 11:26:28 -08:00
include MM: Pass a PTE pointer to update_mmu_cache() rather than the PTE itself 2010-02-20 16:41:46 +00:00
kernel Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-15 09:02:01 -08:00
os-Linux includecheck fix: um, helper.c 2009-09-20 15:59:20 +05:30
scripts
sys-i386 elf coredump: add extended numbering support 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
sys-ia64 uml: remove useless comments 2009-04-01 08:59:17 -07:00
sys-ppc elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP 2009-12-16 07:20:12 -08:00
sys-x86_64 x86: Fix breakage of UML from the changes in the rwsem system 2010-01-17 21:51:29 -08:00
.gitignore um: tell git to ignore generated files 2010-03-06 11:26:28 -08:00
defconfig
Kconfig.char
Kconfig.common
Kconfig.debug
Kconfig.net
Kconfig.rest uml: kill a kconfig warning 2009-04-21 13:41:50 -07:00
Kconfig.um
Kconfig.x86
Makefile kbuild: move asm-offsets.h to include/generated 2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
Makefile-i386
Makefile-ia64
Makefile-os-Linux
Makefile-ppc
Makefile-skas
Makefile-x86_64