linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 1/3] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM

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Date:	Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:09:15 -0400
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/3] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)

Currently we fail to include any data on hugepages into coredump,
because VM_DONTDUMP is set on hugetlbfs's vma. This behavior was recently
introduced by commit 314e51b98 "mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and
mm->reserved_vm counter". This looks to me a serious regression,
so let's fix it.

ChangeLog v3:
 - move 'return 0' into a separate patch

ChangeLog v2:
 - add 'return 0' in hugepage memory check

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git v3.9-rc3.orig/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c v3.9-rc3/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 84e3d85..523464e 100644
--- v3.9-rc3.orig/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ v3.9-rc3/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	 * way when do_mmap_pgoff unwinds (may be important on powerpc
 	 * and ia64).
 	 */
-	vma->vm_flags |= VM_HUGETLB | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_HUGETLB | VM_DONTEXPAND;
 	vma->vm_ops = &hugetlb_vm_ops;
 
 	if (vma->vm_pgoff & (~huge_page_mask(h) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
-- 
1.7.11.7

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