linux/kernel
Daisuke HATAYAMA 8d9032bbe4 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 <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
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gcov
irq
power mm/pm: force GFP_NOIO during suspend/hibernation and resume 2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
time Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-01 08:48:25 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_tree.c new helper: iterate_mounts() 2010-03-03 14:07:57 -05:00
audit_watch.c
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup.c sched, cgroups: Fix module export 2010-02-25 12:02:13 +01:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c kernel/cpu.c: delete deprecated definition in cpu_up() 2010-03-06 11:26:28 -08:00
cpuset.c
cred-internals.h
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
early_res.c early_res: Need to save the allocation name in drop_range_partial() 2010-03-01 23:23:02 -08:00
elfcore.c elf coredump: add extended numbering support 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c kernel/exit.c: fix shadows sparse warning 2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kgdb.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface 2010-02-25 17:49:25 +01:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist 2010-02-26 08:20:46 +01:00
Makefile elf coredump: replace ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* macros by functions 2010-03-06 11:26:45 -08:00
module.c
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference() 2010-02-25 10:34:26 +01:00
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: Allocate the cpumask for the padata instance 2010-03-04 13:30:22 +08:00
panic.c panic: fix panic_timeout accuracy when running on a hypervisor 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
params.c includecheck fix for kernel/params.c 2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
perf_event.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
pid_namespace.c
pid.c kernel/pid.c: update comment on find_task_by_pid_ns 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
posix-timers.c
printk.c printk: avoid warning when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically 2010-02-23 13:45:26 -08:00
range.c
rcupdate.c rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active 2010-02-26 08:20:46 +01:00
rcutiny.c
rcutorture.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU 2010-02-27 09:53:53 +01:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers 2010-02-25 10:34:57 +01:00
rcutree.c rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU 2010-02-27 09:53:52 +01:00
rcutree.h rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU 2010-02-27 09:53:52 +01:00
relay.c splice: comparing unsigned int < 0 2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
res_counter.c
resource.c Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-03 09:11:02 -08:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c bitops: rename for_each_bit() to for_each_set_bit() 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power 2010-02-26 15:45:13 +01:00
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
sched_stats.h
sched.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
slow-work-debugfs.c
slow-work.c
slow-work.h
smp.c
softirq.c
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitives 2010-02-25 09:40:59 +01:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c kernel core: use helpers for rlimits 2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c Switch may_open() and break_lease() to passing O_... 2010-03-03 13:00:21 -05:00
sysctl_check.c
sysctl.c Merge branch 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-05 10:50:22 -08:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c
workqueue.c