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elf coredump: add extended numbering support
authorDaisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:44:10 +0000 (13:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:26:46 +0000 (11:26 -0800)
commite6a83572daf4fdcf3262db8d206d7cd6cb317573
treea31d22f488f7d6789259da68c53cb2727a925fa8
parent8b6a3553d340c8e1bc54cb36686161962c8d60e2
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>
arch/ia64/kernel/elfcore.c
arch/um/sys-i386/elfcore.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c
fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
include/linux/elf.h
include/linux/elfcore.h
kernel/elfcore.c