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powerpc/mm: tracking vDSO remap

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Some processes (CRIU) are moving the vDSO area using the mremap system
call.  As a consequence the kernel reference to the vDSO base address is
no more valid and the signal return frame built once the vDSO has been
moved is not pointing to the new sigreturn address.

This patch handles vDSO remapping and unmapping.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Laurent Dufour 2015-06-24 16:56:22 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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