From 8d9032bbe4671dc481261ccd4e161cd96e54b118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daisuke HATAYAMA Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:44:10 -0800 Subject: elf coredump: add extended numbering support The current ELF dumper implementation can produce broken corefiles if program headers exceed 65535. This number is determined by the number of vmas which the process have. In particular, some extreme programs may use more than 65535 vmas. (If you google max_map_count, you can find some users facing this problem.) This kind of program never be able to generate correct coredumps. This patch implements ``extended numbering'' that uses sh_info field of the first section header instead of e_phnum field in order to represent upto 4294967295 vmas. This is supported by AMD64-ABI(http://www.x86-64.org/documentation.html) and Solaris(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/). Of course, we are preparing patches for gdb and binutils. Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: David Howells Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/elfcore.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/elfcore.c') diff --git a/kernel/elfcore.c b/kernel/elfcore.c index 5445741f4b4c..ff915efef66d 100644 --- a/kernel/elfcore.c +++ b/kernel/elfcore.c @@ -21,3 +21,8 @@ int __weak elf_core_write_extra_data(struct file *file, size_t *size, { return 1; } + +size_t __weak elf_core_extra_data_size(void) +{ + return 0; +} -- cgit v1.2.3