When running applications which make large (sparsely populated) address ranges
(e.g. when using address sanitizer with LibAFL) the inability to exclude these
regions from any core dump can result in very large files which fill the disk.
A coredump is obvously very useful for performing a post-mortem when fuzzing.
Whilst the man pages state that madvise provides only a hint (and hence can be
ignored), this patch adds support to handle MADV_DONTDUMP and set a
corresponding flag in the page flags, thus allowing QEMU to exclude these
regions from the core file.
We already have "qemu/compiler.h" for compiler-specific arrangements,
automatically included by "qemu/osdep.h" for each source file. No
need to explicitly include a header for a Clang particularity.
Suggested-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20250117170201.91182-1-philmd@linaro.org>
Move mmap_lock(), mmap_unlock() declarations and the
WITH_MMAP_LOCK_GUARD() definition to 'exec/page-protection.h'.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20241212185341.2857-5-philmd@linaro.org>
Extract page-protection definitions from "exec/cpu-all.h"
to "exec/page-protection.h".
The list of files requiring the new header was generated
using:
$ git grep -wE \
'PAGE_(READ|WRITE|EXEC|RWX|VALID|ANON|RESERVED|TARGET_.|PASSTHROUGH)'
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240427155714.53669-3-philmd@linaro.org>
