From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 1/3] Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113232457.GC21666@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113150904.56c15910.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:52:27 -0500
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency.
> > Since mm->flags bit flags is not protected by locks, it will be
> > changed while dumping core. This patch copies mm->flags to a
> > mm_flags local variable at the beginning of do_coredump() and
> > use it while dumping. mm_flags also includes dump_filter which
> > filters elf sections from core file in elf_core_dump().
> > So, this patch also passes mm_flags to each binfmt->core_dump().
>
> I can kind-of guess the answer, but it would be much more reliable if
> we were to hear this from yourself:
>
> Why did you write this patch? What problem is being observed?
i'm not Masami so i'm only guessing that while writing the tracepoint a
race got noticed but that otherwise there's no big practical effect,
'just' a cleanliness problem fixed.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 22:52 Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 22:52 ` [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:39 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14 0:00 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-14 0:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-14 0:06 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14 0:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-14 1:49 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14 0:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 22:52 ` [PATCH -tip 3/3] Add get_signal tracepoint Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:53 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14 0:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-16 21:52 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-16 22:11 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-16 22:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-16 23:01 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-16 23:46 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-17 6:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-17 15:25 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-14 0:29 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:09 ` [PATCH -tip 1/3] Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 23:25 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-11-13 23:45 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:16 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-13 23:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-13 23:30 ` Roland McGrath
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