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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2025-03-08 00:54:06 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2025-03-08 00:54:06 +0100
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Merge branch 'locking/urgent' into locking/core, to pick up locking fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -212,6 +212,17 @@ pid>/``).
This value defaults to 0.
+core_sort_vma
+=============
+
+The default coredump writes VMAs in address order. By setting
+``core_sort_vma`` to 1, VMAs will be written from smallest size
+to largest size. This is known to break at least elfutils, but
+can be handy when dealing with very large (and truncated)
+coredumps where the more useful debugging details are included
+in the smaller VMAs.
+
+
core_uses_pid
=============