Re: [patch] VM_IO fixes

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:50:10 -0800 (PST)


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:14:28 -0800

It's simpler to make VM_IO default to `on', and to only clear it
in places where we know that it's safe to dump the memory to a
core file, and where it's safe to PTRACE_PEEKUSR it. That's
what this patch does.

I completely agree with this change.
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