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| author | Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com> | 2017-12-04 09:17:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> | 2017-12-04 11:54:55 -0500 |
| commit | 1e52e8495a074c9d1f7ef17f13b9060b76be6f41 (patch) | |
| tree | 50ce2a06e4c6cba6281426c11145142e45b84729 /gdb/doc | |
| parent | afa840dcc021eaeb975dcde3bedbf46ea0511717 (diff) | |
| download | binutils-gdb-1e52e8495a074c9d1f7ef17f13b9060b76be6f41.tar.gz | |
Document new {set,show} dump-excluded-mappings commands.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Announce {set,show}
dump_excluded_mappings commands.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (gcore): Mention new {set,show}
dump-excluded-mappings commands.
(set dump-excluded-mappings): Document new command.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 689025feabd..1039f4c27bb 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -11594,7 +11594,9 @@ this writing, @sc{gnu}/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and S390). On @sc{gnu}/Linux, this command can take into account the value of the file @file{/proc/@var{pid}/coredump_filter} when generating the core -dump (@pxref{set use-coredump-filter}). +dump (@pxref{set use-coredump-filter}), and by default honors the +@code{VM_DONTDUMP} flag for mappings where it is present in the file +@file{/proc/@var{pid}/smaps} (@pxref{set dump-excluded-mappings}). @kindex set use-coredump-filter @anchor{set use-coredump-filter} @@ -11624,6 +11626,16 @@ value is currently @code{0x33}, which means that bits @code{0} (anonymous private mappings), @code{1} (anonymous shared mappings), @code{4} (ELF headers) and @code{5} (private huge pages) are active. This will cause these memory mappings to be dumped automatically. + +@kindex set dump-excluded-mappings +@anchor{set dump-excluded-mappings} +@item set dump-excluded-mappings on +@itemx set dump-excluded-mappings off +If @code{on} is specified, @value{GDBN} will dump memory mappings +marked with the @code{VM_DONTDUMP} flag. This flag is represented in +the file @file{/proc/@var{pid}/smaps} with the acronym @code{dd}. + +The default value is @code{off}. @end table @node Character Sets |