linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86,mm: Improve _install_special

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Message-ID: <537BA0FF.3000504@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 11:37:51 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, x86@...nel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86,mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix
 x86 vdso naming

On 05/19/2014 03:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> As a side effect, the vvar area will show up in core dumps.  This
> could be considered weird and is fixable.  Thoughts?
> 

On this issue... I don't know if this is likely to break anything.  My
suggestion is that we accept it as-is but be prepared to deal with it if
it breaks something.
	
	-hpa


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