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The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types' of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this case). Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need for this flag. The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new 'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags: 'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the region. The qemu code which implements this features is at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this patch. I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are dumped. This patch: The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
73 lines
1.4 KiB
C
73 lines
1.4 KiB
C
/*
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* Copyright (C) 2011 Richard Weinberger <richrd@nod.at>
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation.
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*/
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#include <linux/slab.h>
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#include <linux/sched.h>
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#include <linux/mm.h>
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#include <asm/page.h>
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#include <linux/init.h>
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unsigned int __read_mostly vdso_enabled = 1;
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unsigned long um_vdso_addr;
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extern unsigned long task_size;
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extern char vdso_start[], vdso_end[];
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static struct page **vdsop;
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static int __init init_vdso(void)
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{
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struct page *um_vdso;
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BUG_ON(vdso_end - vdso_start > PAGE_SIZE);
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um_vdso_addr = task_size - PAGE_SIZE;
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vdsop = kmalloc(sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
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if (!vdsop)
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goto oom;
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um_vdso = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
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if (!um_vdso) {
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kfree(vdsop);
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goto oom;
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}
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copy_page(page_address(um_vdso), vdso_start);
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*vdsop = um_vdso;
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return 0;
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oom:
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printk(KERN_ERR "Cannot allocate vdso\n");
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vdso_enabled = 0;
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return -ENOMEM;
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}
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subsys_initcall(init_vdso);
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int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
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{
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int err;
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struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
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if (!vdso_enabled)
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return 0;
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down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
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err = install_special_mapping(mm, um_vdso_addr, PAGE_SIZE,
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VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
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VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
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vdsop);
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up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
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return err;
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}
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