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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 18/21] vmcore: check if vmcore objects satify mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:29:05PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

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> Preserving the actual PT_LOAD segments p_paddr and p_memsz values is
> important. p_offset we can change as much as we want. Which means there
> can be logical holes in the file between PT_LOAD segments, where we put
> the extra data needed to keep everything page aligned.

Agreed. If one modifies p_paddr then one will have to modify p->vaddr
too. And user space tools look at p->vaddr and where is the corresponding
physical address. Keeping p_vaddr and p_paddr intact makes sense.

Thanks
Vivek


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