Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

Merge second batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc things
 - core kernel changes to prctl, exit, exec, init, etc.
 - kernel/watchdog.c updates
 - get_maintainer
 - MAINTAINERS
 - the backlight driver queue
 - core bitops code cleanups
 - the led driver queue
 - some core prio_tree work
 - checkpatch udpates
 - largeish crc32 update
 - a new poll() feature for the v4l guys
 - the rtc driver queue
 - fatfs
 - ptrace
 - signals
 - kmod/usermodehelper updates
 - coredump
 - procfs updates

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
  seq_file: add seq_set_overflow(), seq_overflow()
  proc-ns: use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate().
  procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statm
  procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat
  proc: speed up /proc/stat handling
  fs/proc/kcore.c: make get_sparsemem_vmemmap_info() static
  coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP
  coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
  kmod: make __request_module() killable
  kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper
  usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit()
  usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constants
  usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE
  usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info)
  usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently
  signal: zap_pid_ns_processes: s/SEND_SIG_NOINFO/SEND_SIG_FORCED/
  signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
  signal: cosmetic, s/from_ancestor_ns/force/ in prepare_signal() paths
  signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE
  Hexagon: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index 7d14bb697d40..d36ee1055f88 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -263,17 +263,11 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 	 * the "data" page of the vDSO or you'll stop getting kernel updates
 	 * and your nice userland gettimeofday will be totally dead.
 	 * It's fine to use that for setting breakpoints in the vDSO code
-	 * pages though
-	 *
-	 * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
-	 * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later
-	 * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see
-	 * what PC values meant.
+	 * pages though.
 	 */
 	rc = install_special_mapping(mm, vdso_base, vdso_pages << PAGE_SHIFT,
 				     VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-				     VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-				     VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+				     VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 				     vdso_pagelist);
 	if (rc) {
 		current->mm->context.vdso_base = 0;