Re: [PATCH 1/2] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializingvma(VM_HUGETLB)

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 28 2013 - 11:51:18 EST


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:42:37AM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Currently we fail to include any data on hugepages into coredump,
> because VM_DONTDUMP is set on hugetlbfs's vma. This behavior was recently
> introduced by commit 314e51b98 "mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and
> mm->reserved_vm counter". This looks to me a serious regression,
> so let's fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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