Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip 1/3] Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency

[Andrew M. <ak...@li...>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:52:27 -0500
Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...> wrote:

> Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency.
> Since mm->flags bit flags is not protected by locks, it will be
> changed while dumping core. This patch copies mm->flags to a
> mm_flags local variable at the beginning of do_coredump() and
> use it while dumping. mm_flags also includes dump_filter which
> filters elf sections from core file in elf_core_dump().
> So, this patch also passes mm_flags to each binfmt->core_dump().

I can kind-of guess the answer, but it would be much more reliable if
we were to hear this from yourself:

  Why did you write this patch?  What problem is being observed?