Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:12:51 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix vsyscall page in core dumps |
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote: > > My change to core dumps that was included with the vsyscall DSO > implementation had a bug (braino on my part). Core dumps don't include the > full page of the vsyscall DSO, and so don't accurately represent the whole > memory image of the process. This patch fixes it. I have tested it on > x86, but not tested the same change to 32-bit core dumps on AMD64 (haven't > even compiled on AMD64). > > I've also included the corresponding change for the IA64 code that was > copied blindly from the x86 vsyscall implementation, which looks like more > change than it is since I preserved the formatting of the copied code > instead of arbitrarily diddling it along with the trivial symbol name > changes.
How does one test it?
> I haven't compiled or tested on ia64.
I have. GATE_BASE is undefined. Replacing it with GATE_ADDR makes it build OK, but that's all I can say.
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