Re: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:05:07PM +0900, Kawai, Hidehiro wrote:
> You can specify memory segment types you don't want to dump via
> /proc/<pid>/core_flags file, which is provided per process.
> This file represents a set of flags, but currently, only bit 0 is
> available. If bit 0 is set, the kernel core dump routine doesn't
> dump anonymous shared memory segments, which includes IPC shared
> memory and some of mmap(2)'ed memory.

Can you make this a little more transparent?  Having a magic bitmask does
not seem like the best way to do stuff.  Could you maybe make a core_flags
directory with a seperate file for each flag.  It could still map to a
single field in the mm, but be broken out for the proc filesystem.

I can certainly see the value of this for our customers.  We have some
customers that run jobs in the 1-2TB range.  Most of those customers
have always had coredumps disabled and just rely upon being able to
rerun the application and have MPI drop them into a debugger.

Thanks,
Robin
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