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| author |   Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> | 2012-03-23 15:02:51 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-23 16:58:42 -0700 |
| commit | accb61fe7bb0f5c2a4102239e4981650f9048519 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e7120b80944d9719684b94e0c419761ba2d59e1 /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-accb61fe7bb0f5c2a4102239e4981650f9048519.tar.xz linux-dev-accb61fe7bb0f5c2a4102239e4981650f9048519.zip | |
coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP
Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit
for 'VM_NODUMP' flag. The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag:
MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request
memory regions which should not dump core.
The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there
that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core. This flag
might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely
make sure that parts of memory are not dumped. To clear the flag use:
MADV_DODUMP.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke]
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 2de2ddba51d4..a6fabdfd34c5 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_HUGEPAGE 0x01000000 /* MADV_HUGEPAGE marked this vma */ #endif #define VM_INSERTPAGE 0x02000000 /* The vma has had "vm_insert_page()" done on it */ +#define VM_NODUMP 0x04000000 /* Do not include in the core dump */ #define VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 0x08000000 /* Has ->fault & does nonlinear pages */ #define VM_MIXEDMAP 0x10000000 /* Can contain "struct page" and pure PFN pages */ |