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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:46:00 -0000
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,        Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,        Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>,        GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,        Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,        "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: install_special_mapping && vm_pgoff (Was: vvar, gup &&	coredump)
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On 03/16, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Ick, you're probably right.  For what it's worth, the vdso *seems* to
> be okay (on 64-bit only, and only if you don't poke at it too hard) if
> you mremap it in one piece.  CRIU does that.

I need to run away till tomorrow, but looking at this code even if "one piece"
case doesn't look right if it was cow'ed. I'll verify tomorrow.

Oleg.