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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-01-31 11:24:00 -0600
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-01-31 11:24:00 -0600
commit30716e07ef511ec7525c07eb1e8060ba8943c2a2 (patch)
treeeb6a47cae63d3587fa773cc5a16781eaa2c7810b /arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
parent03c79cc56e4497cbd09d74a73c1bd0d1d9a8a16c (diff)
parentf56df2f4db6e4af87fb8e941cff69f4501a111df (diff)
Merge branch 'linus'
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index a4b28c73bba..ae0ede19879 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
* pages though
*/
vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC;
+ /*
+ * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
+ * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later
+ * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see
+ * what PC values meant.
+ */
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
vma->vm_flags |= mm->def_flags;
vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vma->vm_flags & 0x7];
vma->vm_ops = &vdso_vmops;