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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:28:00 -0000
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,        Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>,        GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,        Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vvar, gup && coredump
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On 03/12, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Well. Speaking of vdso. I understand that unlikely we can do this, but
> > for uprobes it would be nice to have a anon-inode file behind this mapping,
> > so that vma_interval_tree_foreach() could work, etc. OK, this is completely
> > off-topic, please forget.
>
> Couldn't you do that directly in the uprobes code?  That is, create an
> anon_inode file and just map it the old-fashioned way?

This won't help. Uprobes wants this file mmaped by all applications, so
that build_map_info() can find mm's, vma's, etc to install the system-wide
breakpoint. But again, this is off-topic and unlikely possible.

Oleg.