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()
  ...

31 files changed, 50 insertions, 109 deletions

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 5b448a74d0f..a6f14f622d1 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ config HAVE_KRETPROBES
 
 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
 	bool
+
+config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
+	bool
 #
 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
 #
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h
index 72db984f878..cbeb3616a28 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@
 #define MADV_HUGEPAGE	14		/* Worth backing with hugepages */
 #define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE	15		/* Not worth backing with hugepages */
 
+#define MADV_DONTDUMP   16		/* Explicity exclude from the core dump,
+					   overrides the coredump filter bits */
+#define MADV_DODUMP	17		/* Clear the MADV_NODUMP flag */
+
 /* compatibility flags */
 #define MAP_FILE	0
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h
index ffc0e85775b..7ec60d6075b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
  * No page table caches to initialise.
  */
 #define pgtable_cache_init()	do { } while (0)
-#define io_remap_page_range	remap_page_range
 #define io_remap_pfn_range	remap_pfn_range
 
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index c2ae3cd331f..219e4efee1a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -533,8 +533,7 @@ int vectors_user_mapping(void)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	return install_special_mapping(mm, 0xffff0000, PAGE_SIZE,
 				       VM_READ | VM_EXEC |
-				       VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYEXEC |
-				       VM_ALWAYSDUMP | VM_RESERVED,
+				       VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYEXEC | VM_RESERVED,
 				       NULL);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/blackfin/Kconfig b/arch/blackfin/Kconfig
index abe5a9e8514..c1269a1085e 100644
--- a/arch/blackfin/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/blackfin/Kconfig
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ config BLACKFIN
 	select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
 	select IRQ_PER_CPU if SMP
+	select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG if NMI_WATCHDOG
 
 config GENERIC_CSUM
 	def_bool y
diff --git a/arch/blackfin/include/asm/irq.h b/arch/blackfin/include/asm/irq.h
index 12f4060a31b..89de539ed01 100644
--- a/arch/blackfin/include/asm/irq.h
+++ b/arch/blackfin/include/asm/irq.h
@@ -38,8 +38,4 @@
 
 #include <asm-generic/irq.h>
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NMI_WATCHDOG
-# define ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
-#endif
-
 #endif				/* _BFIN_IRQ_H_ */
diff --git a/arch/c6x/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/c6x/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 68c8af4f1f9..38a4312eb2c 100644
--- a/arch/c6x/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/c6x/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page;
 #define pgtable_cache_init()   do { } while (0)
 #define io_remap_pfn_range      remap_pfn_range
 
-#define io_remap_page_range(vma, vaddr, paddr, size, prot)		\
-		remap_pfn_range(vma, vaddr, (paddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT, size, prot)
-
 #include <asm-generic/pgtable.h>
 
 #endif /* _ASM_C6X_PGTABLE_H */
diff --git a/arch/hexagon/kernel/signal.c b/arch/hexagon/kernel/signal.c
index b45be318119..ecbab345760 100644
--- a/arch/hexagon/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/hexagon/kernel/signal.c
@@ -192,12 +192,7 @@ static int handle_signal(int sig, siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *ka,
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	sigorsets(&current->blocked, &current->blocked, &ka->sa.sa_mask);
-	if (!(ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_NODEFER))
-		sigaddset(&current->blocked, sig);
-	recalc_sigpending();
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	block_sigmask(ka, sig);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -305,10 +300,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(void)
 		goto badframe;
 
 	sigdelsetmask(&blocked, ~_BLOCKABLE);
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	current->blocked = blocked;
-	recalc_sigpending();
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	set_current_blocked(&blocked);
 
 	if (restore_sigcontext(regs, &frame->uc.uc_mcontext))
 		goto badframe;
diff --git a/arch/hexagon/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/hexagon/kernel/vdso.c
index 16277c33308..f212a453b52 100644
--- a/arch/hexagon/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/hexagon/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 	/* MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints. */
 	ret = install_special_mapping(mm, vdso_base, PAGE_SIZE,
 				      VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-				      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-				      VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+				      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 				      &vdso_page);
 
 	if (ret)
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h
index b2af42311a1..44dc67aa027 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -543,8 +543,6 @@ extern unsigned long iopa(unsigned long addr);
 /* Needs to be defined here and not in linux/mm.h, as it is arch dependent */
 #define kern_addr_valid(addr)	(1)
 
-#define io_remap_page_range remap_page_range
-
 /*
  * No page table caches to initialise
  */
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h
index 785b4ea4ec3..46d3da0d4b9 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@
 #define MADV_HUGEPAGE	14		/* Worth backing with hugepages */
 #define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE	15		/* Not worth backing with hugepages */
 
+#define MADV_DONTDUMP   16		/* Explicity exclude from the core dump,
+					   overrides the coredump filter bits */
+#define MADV_DODUMP	17		/* Clear the MADV_NODUMP flag */
+
 /* compatibility flags */
 #define MAP_FILE	0
 
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
index e5cdfd603f8..0f1af58b036 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 
 	ret = install_special_mapping(mm, addr, PAGE_SIZE,
 				      VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-				      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-				      VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+				      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 				      &vdso_page);
 
 	if (ret)
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/Kconfig b/arch/mn10300/Kconfig
index 8f1c40d5817..3aa3de01715 100644
--- a/arch/mn10300/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mn10300/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config MN10300
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
+	select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG if MN10300_WD_TIMER
 
 config AM33_2
 	def_bool n
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/include/asm/reset-regs.h b/arch/mn10300/include/asm/reset-regs.h
index 10c7502a113..8ca2a42d365 100644
--- a/arch/mn10300/include/asm/reset-regs.h
+++ b/arch/mn10300/include/asm/reset-regs.h
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MN10300_WD_TIMER
-#define ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG		/* See include/linux/nmi.h */
-#endif
-
 /*
  * watchdog timer registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 043505d7f68..14c900cfd30 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  * No page table caches to initialise
  */
 #define pgtable_cache_init()		do { } while (0)
-#define io_remap_page_range		remap_page_range
 
 typedef pte_t *pte_addr_t;
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h
index f5b7bf5fba6..12219ebce86 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
 #define MADV_HUGEPAGE	67		/* Worth backing with hugepages */
 #define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE	68		/* Not worth backing with hugepages */
 
+#define MADV_DONTDUMP   69		/* Explicity exclude from the core dump,
+					   overrides the coredump filter bits */
+#define MADV_DODUMP	70		/* Clear the MADV_NODUMP flag */
+
 /* compatibility flags */
 #define MAP_FILE	0
 #define MAP_VARIABLE	0
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index 7d14bb697d4..d36ee1055f8 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;
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c
index e704a9965f9..9c80138206b 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -241,17 +241,11 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 	 * on 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;
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c b/arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
index 1d6d51a1ce7..5ca579720a0 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 
 	ret = install_special_mapping(mm, addr, PAGE_SIZE,
 				      VM_READ | VM_EXEC |
-				      VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC |
-				      VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+				      VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC,
 				      syscall_pages);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		goto up_fail;
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index ca5580e4d81..1666de84d47 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config SPARC
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
 	select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS if SMP
 	select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
+	select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG if SPARC64
 
 config SPARC32
 	def_bool !64BIT
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/irq_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/irq_64.h
index 16dcae6d56e..abf6afe82ca 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/irq_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/irq_64.h
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(void);
 extern void *hardirq_stack[NR_CPUS];
 extern void *softirq_stack[NR_CPUS];
 #define __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ
-#define ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
 
 #define NO_IRQ		0xffffffff
 
diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/elf.c b/arch/tile/mm/elf.c
index 55e58e93bfc..1a00fb64fc8 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/elf.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/elf.c
@@ -117,17 +117,11 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 
 	/*
 	 * MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints
-	 *
-	 * 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.
 	 */
 	vdso_base = VDSO_BASE;
 	retval = install_special_mapping(mm, vdso_base, PAGE_SIZE,
 					 VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-					 VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-					 VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+					 VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 					 vdso_pages);
 
 #ifndef __tilegx__
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/signal.c b/arch/um/kernel/signal.c
index e8b889d3bce..fb12f4c5e64 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/signal.c
@@ -65,21 +65,10 @@ static int handle_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long signr,
 #endif
 		err = setup_signal_stack_si(sp, signr, ka, regs, info, oldset);
 
-	if (err) {
-		spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-		current->blocked = *oldset;
-		recalc_sigpending();
-		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	if (err)
 		force_sigsegv(signr, current);
-	} else {
-		spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-		sigorsets(&current->blocked, &current->blocked,
-			  &ka->sa.sa_mask);
-		if (!(ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_NODEFER))
-			sigaddset(&current->blocked, signr);
-		recalc_sigpending();
-		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	}
+	else
+		block_sigmask(ka, signr);
 
 	return err;
 }
@@ -162,12 +151,11 @@ int do_signal(void)
  */
 long sys_sigsuspend(int history0, int history1, old_sigset_t mask)
 {
+	sigset_t blocked;
+
 	mask &= _BLOCKABLE;
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	current->saved_sigmask = current->blocked;
-	siginitset(&current->blocked, mask);
-	recalc_sigpending();
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	siginitset(&blocked, mask);
+	set_current_blocked(&blocked);
 
 	current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
 	schedule();
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/kernel/process.c b/arch/unicore32/kernel/process.c
index 52edc2b6287..432b4291f37 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/unicore32/kernel/process.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ int vectors_user_mapping(void)
 	return install_special_mapping(mm, 0xffff0000, PAGE_SIZE,
 				       VM_READ | VM_EXEC |
 				       VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYEXEC |
-				       VM_ALWAYSDUMP | VM_RESERVED,
+				       VM_RESERVED,
 				       NULL);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 0a18d16cb58..fa2900c0e39 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -643,14 +643,14 @@ static bool __perf_sched_find_counter(struct perf_sched *sched)
 	/* Prefer fixed purpose counters */
 	if (x86_pmu.num_counters_fixed) {
 		idx = X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED;
-		for_each_set_bit_cont(idx, c->idxmsk, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX) {
+		for_each_set_bit_from(idx, c->idxmsk, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX) {
 			if (!__test_and_set_bit(idx, sched->state.used))
 				goto done;
 		}
 	}
 	/* Grab the first unused counter starting with idx */
 	idx = sched->state.counter;
-	for_each_set_bit_cont(idx, c->idxmsk, X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED) {
+	for_each_set_bit_from(idx, c->idxmsk, X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED) {
 		if (!__test_and_set_bit(idx, sched->state.used))
 			goto done;
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
index 313fb5cddbc..43e2b1cff0a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ void __init native_init_IRQ(void)
 	 * us. (some of these will be overridden and become
 	 * 'special' SMP interrupts)
 	 */
-	for (i = FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR; i < NR_VECTORS; i++) {
+	i = FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR;
+	for_each_clear_bit_from(i, used_vectors, NR_VECTORS) {
 		/* IA32_SYSCALL_VECTOR could be used in trap_init already. */
-		if (!test_bit(i, used_vectors))
-			set_intr_gate(i, interrupt[i-FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR]);
+		set_intr_gate(i, interrupt[i - FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR]);
 	}
 
 	if (!acpi_ioapic && !of_ioapic)
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/mem_32.c b/arch/x86/um/mem_32.c
index 639900a6fde..f40281e5d6a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/mem_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/mem_32.c
@@ -23,14 +23,6 @@ static int __init gate_vma_init(void)
 	gate_vma.vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYEXEC;
 	gate_vma.vm_page_prot = __P101;
 
-	/*
-	 * 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.
-	 */
-	gate_vma.vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
-
 	return 0;
 }
 __initcall(gate_vma_init);
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c
index 91f4ec9a0a5..af91901babb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 
 	err = install_special_mapping(mm, um_vdso_addr, PAGE_SIZE,
 		VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-		VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-		VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+		VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 		vdsop);
 
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
index 468d591dde3..a944020fa85 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
@@ -250,13 +250,7 @@ static int __init gate_vma_init(void)
 	gate_vma.vm_end = FIXADDR_USER_END;
 	gate_vma.vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYEXEC;
 	gate_vma.vm_page_prot = __P101;
-	/*
-	 * 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.
-	 */
-	gate_vma.vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -343,17 +337,10 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 	if (compat_uses_vma || !compat) {
 		/*
 		 * MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints
-		 *
-		 * 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.
 		 */
 		ret = install_special_mapping(mm, addr, PAGE_SIZE,
 					      VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-					      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-					      VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+					      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 					      vdso32_pages);
 
 		if (ret)
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
index 153407c35b7..17e18279649 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
@@ -124,8 +124,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 
 	ret = install_special_mapping(mm, addr, vdso_size,
 				      VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-				      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-				      VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+				      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
 				      vdso_pages);
 	if (ret) {
 		current->mm->context.vdso = NULL;
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h
index 30789010733..25bc6c1309c 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
 #define MADV_HUGEPAGE	14		/* Worth backing with hugepages */
 #define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE	15		/* Not worth backing with hugepages */
 
+#define MADV_DONTDUMP   16		/* Explicity exclude from the core dump,
+					   overrides the coredump filter bits */
+#define MADV_DODUMP	17		/* Clear the MADV_NODUMP flag */
+
 /* compatibility flags */
 #define MAP_FILE	0