linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM

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Message-Id: <20120307214104.7A4262C0C5@topped-with-meat.com>
Date:	Wed,  7 Mar 2012 13:41:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, avi@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	cmetcalf@...era.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] core dump: drop VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag

A few of the vDSO VM_ALWAYSDUMP cases have a comment about the core dump.
(It looks like they were all copied from my original comment in
arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c.)  So those should be removed where they are.
(You removed some of them, but not all.)  You should put that comment into
always_dump_vma.

get_gate_vma is always defined quite trivially, and is also the most
logically obvious case, so I would test it first.

It sounds like the Tile special case is unnecessary, so just
arch_vma_name(vma) != NULL is an adequate test.  Please give it
a clear comment about why that test makes sense, i.e. because all
extant uses are for a vDSO or something similar.

Thanks,
Roland
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