History log of /include/linux/elf.h
Revision Date Author Comments
267aed9dfeb2225960043f89db1f58d8ab522797 12-Dec-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> UAPI: elf_read_implies_exec() is a kernel-only feature - so hide from userspace

elf_read_implies_exec() is a kernel-only feature as the second parameter is a
constant that isn't exported to userspace. Not only that, but the
arch-specific overrides are not exported either.

So hide the macro from userspace.

Similarly, struct file should not be predeclared in userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
20b40a794baf3b4b0320c0a77ce944d5d1a01f25 30-Oct-2011 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390] signal race with restarting system calls

For a ERESTARTNOHAND/ERESTARTSYS/ERESTARTNOINTR restarting system call
do_signal will prepare the restart of the system call with a rewind of
the PSW before calling get_signal_to_deliver (where the debugger might
take control). For A ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK restarting system call
do_signal will set -EINTR as return code.
There are two issues with this approach:
1) strace never sees ERESTARTNOHAND, ERESTARTSYS, ERESTARTNOINTR or
ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK as the rewinding already took place or the
return code has been changed to -EINTR
2) if get_signal_to_deliver does not return with a signal to deliver
the restart via the repeat of the svc instruction is left in place.
This opens a race if another signal is made pending before the
system call instruction can be reexecuted. The original system call
will be restarted even if the second signal would have ended the
system call with -EINTR.

These two issues can be solved by dropping the early rewind of the
system call before get_signal_to_deliver has been called and by using
the TIF_RESTART_SVC magic to do the restart if no signal has to be
delivered. The only situation where the system call restart via the
repeat of the svc instruction is appropriate is when a SA_RESTART
signal is delivered to user space.

Unfortunately this breaks inferior calls by the debugger again. The
system call number and the length of the system call instruction is
lost over the inferior call and user space will see ERESTARTNOHAND/
ERESTARTSYS/ERESTARTNOINTR/ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. To correct this a
new ptrace interface is added to save/restore the system call number
and system call instruction length.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
4c3b512c6b054e8c0bf14b1d61b20d4569de0a21 18-Apr-2011 Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> ARM: 6882/1: ELF: Define new core note type for VFP registers

The VFP registers are not currently included in coredumps,
and there's no existing note type where they can sensibly be
included, so this patch defines a dedicated note type for them.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
86f2552bbd0e17b19bb5e9881042533eaea553c7 17-May-2010 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390] add breaking event address for user space

Copy the last breaking event address from the lowcore to a new
field in the thread_struct on each system entry. Add a new
ptrace request PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK and a new utrace regset
REGSET_LAST_BREAK to query the last breaking event.

This is useful for debugging wild branches in user space code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
8d9032bbe4671dc481261ccd4e161cd96e54b118 05-Mar-2010 Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> elf coredump: add extended numbering support

The current ELF dumper implementation can produce broken corefiles if
program headers exceed 65535. This number is determined by the number of
vmas which the process have. In particular, some extreme programs may use
more than 65535 vmas. (If you google max_map_count, you can find some
users facing this problem.) This kind of program never be able to generate
correct coredumps.

This patch implements ``extended numbering'' that uses sh_info field of
the first section header instead of e_phnum field in order to represent
upto 4294967295 vmas.

This is supported by
AMD64-ABI(http://www.x86-64.org/documentation.html) and
Solaris(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/).
Of course, we are preparing patches for gdb and binutils.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1fcccbac89f5bbc5e41aa72086960059fce372da 05-Mar-2010 Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> elf coredump: replace ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* macros by functions

elf_core_dump() and elf_fdpic_core_dump() use #ifdef and the corresponding
macro for hiding _multiline_ logics in functions. This patch removes
#ifdef and replaces ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* by corresponding functions. For
architectures not implemeonting ELF_CORE_EXTRA_*, we use weak functions in
order to reduce a range of modification.

This cleanup is for my next patches, but I think this cleanup itself is
worth doing regardless of my firnal purpose.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
73bfa5f2f71efcdcaad8d18cbed96b9d7ed86948 26-Feb-2010 Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [S390] Define new s390 ELF note sections in elf.h

S390 ELF core dump currently only contains the PSW, the general purpose
registers, the floating point registers and the access registers stored
in PRSTATUS/PRFPREG note sections.
For analyzing s390 kernel problems additional registers are important.
In order to be able to include these registers to a kernel ELF core dump,
this patch adds the following five new note sections to elf.h:

* NT_S390_TIMER: S390 timer register
* NT_S390_TODCMP: S390 TOD comparator register
* NT_S390_TODPREG: S390 TOD programmable register
* NT_S390_CTRS: S390 control registers
* NT_S390_PREFIX: S390 prefix register

The new note sections have been already defined and accepted in the upstream
binutils package.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2225a122ae26d542bdce523d9d87a4a7ba10e07b 11-Feb-2010 Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET

Generic support for PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET commands which
export the regsets supported by each architecture using the correponding
NT_* types. These NT_* types are already part of the userland ABI, used
in representing the architecture specific register sets as different NOTES
in an ELF core file.

'addr' parameter for the ptrace system call encode the REGSET type (using
the corresppnding NT_* type) and the 'data' parameter points to the
struct iovec having the user buffer and the length of that buffer.

struct iovec iov = { buf, len};
ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov);

On successful completion, iov.len will be updated by the kernel specifying
how much the kernel has written/read to/from the user's iov.buf.

x86 extended state registers are primarily exported using this interface.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.886724710@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
5b3efd500854d45d305b53c54c97db5970959980 11-Feb-2010 Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate

Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the
core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc.

This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets
supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure.

Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state
is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is
in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence
we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or
the state is not saved in the memory layout.

And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset
interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented
in the memory layout.

First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate
mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).

The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the
core file, using the above mentioned memory layout.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
622e99bf0d54c4517cb0524540cd77257db8621a 18-Dec-2009 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390] rename NT_PRXSTATUS to NT_S390_HIGHREGS

The elf notes number for the upper register halves is s390 specific.
Change the name of the elf notes to include S390.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
ea2a4d3a3a929ef494952bba57a0ef1a8a877881 06-Oct-2009 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> [S390] 64-bit register support for 31-bit processes

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
f4aa1c30255278b7b50a1cd273c7b4a46f099a90 30-Jan-2009 Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> headers_check fix: linux/elf.h

fix the following 'make headers_check' warnings:

usr/include/linux/elf.h:379: extern's make no sense in userspace
usr/include/linux/elf.h:387: extern's make no sense in userspace
usr/include/linux/elf.h:401: extern's make no sense in userspace
usr/include/linux/elf.h:402: extern's make no sense in userspace

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
325af5fb1418c79953db0954556de048e061d8b6 09-Aug-2008 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> x86: ioperm user_regset

This adds a user_regset type for the x86 io permissions bitmap.
This makes it appear in core dumps (when ioperm has been used).
It will also make it visible to debuggers in the future.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
[conflict resolutions: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> ]
f3e909c2750eb20536bacacc867dc9047b70546a 01-Jul-2008 Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> powerpc: Update for VSX core file and ptrace

This correctly hooks the VSX dump into Roland McGrath core file
infrastructure. It adds the VSX dump information as an additional elf
note in the core file (after talking more to the tool chain/gdb guys).
This also ensures the formats are consistent between signals, ptrace
and core files.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
eb6900fbfa43cb50391b80b38608e25280705693 29-Apr-2008 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> ELF: Use EI_NIDENT instead of numeric value

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
6cc931b9b5ec652c90b928f3ec2163f261552c91 07-Feb-2008 Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com> Unexport asm/elf.h

Do not export asm/elf.h during make headers_install.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
24f1a849614ba1805e26a05da7cc8c6bd67490ea 03-Jan-2008 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> [POWERPC] Add SPE registers to core dumps

This makes the SPE register data appear in ELF core dumps, using the
new n_type value NT_PPC_SPE (0x101). This new note type is not used
by any consumers of core files yet, but support can be added. I don't
even have any hardware with SPE capabilities, so I've never seen such
a note. But this demonstrates how simple it is to export register
information in core dumps when the user_regset style is used for the
low-level code.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
bb61682b3f31dec7d058cae2f6edd2275248a704 30-Jan-2008 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> x86: x86 core dump TLS

This makes ELF core dumps of 32-bit processes include a new
note type NT_386_TLS (0x200) giving the contents of the TLS
slots in struct user_desc format. This lets post mortem
examination figure out what the segment registers mean like
the debugger does with get_thread_area on a live process.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
4f9a58d75bfe82ab2b8ba5b8506dfb190a267834 17-Oct-2007 Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> increase AT_VECTOR_SIZE to terminate saved_auxv properly

include/asm-powerpc/elf.h has 6 entries in ARCH_DLINFO. fs/binfmt_elf.c
has 14 unconditional NEW_AUX_ENT entries and 2 conditional NEW_AUX_ENT
entries. So in the worst case, saved_auxv does not get an AT_NULL entry at
the end.

The saved_auxv array must be terminated with an AT_NULL entry. Make the
size of mm_struct->saved_auxv arch dependend, based on the number of
ARCH_DLINFO entries.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1f7d6668c29b1dfa307a44844f9bb38356fc989b 17-Oct-2007 Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> powerpc: add Altivec/VMX state to coredumps

Update dump_task_altivec() (which has so far never been put to use) so that
it dumps the Altivec/VMX registers (VR[0] - VR[31], VSCR and VRSAVE) in the
same format as the ptrace get_vrregs(), and add the appropriate glue
typedef and #defines to make it work.

A new note type of NT_PPC_VMX was chosen to be 0x100 (arbitrarily) because
it allows the low range values to be used for more generic purposes and
0x100 seems an adequate starting point for PowerPC extensions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
e55014923e65e4ee8e477a1212381cca0125f3aa 19-Sep-2007 Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> [POWERPC] spufs: Cleanup ELF coredump extra notes logic

To start with, arch_notes_size() etc. is a little too ambiguous a name for
my liking, so change the function names to be more explicit.

Calling through macros is ugly, especially with hidden parameters, so don't
do that, call the routines directly.

Use ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES as the only flag, and based on it decide
whether we want the extern declarations or the empty versions.

Since we have empty routines, actually use them in the coredump code to
save a few #ifdefs.

We want to change the handling of foffset so that the write routine updates
foffset as it goes, instead of using file->f_pos (so that writing to a pipe
works). So pass foffset to the write routine, and for now just set it to
file->f_pos at the end of writing.

It should also be possible for the write routine to fail, so change it to
return int and treat a non-zero return as failure.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
d4f7a2c18e59e0304a1c733589ce14fc02fec1bd 02-May-2007 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> [PATCH] i386: Relocate VDSO ELF headers to match mapped location with COMPAT_VDSO

Some versions of libc can't deal with a VDSO which doesn't have its
ELF headers matching its mapped address. COMPAT_VDSO maps the VDSO at
a specific system-wide fixed address. Previously this was all done at
build time, on the grounds that the fixed VDSO address is always at
the top of the address space. However, a hypervisor may reserve some
of that address space, pushing the fixmap address down.

This patch does the adjustment dynamically at runtime, depending on
the runtime location of the VDSO fixmap.

[ Patch has been through several hands: Jan Beulich wrote the orignal
version; Zach reworked it, and Jeremy converted it to relocate phdrs
as well as sections. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
6cf24f031bc97cb5a7c9df3b6e73c45b628b2b28 07-Dec-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [PATCH] elf.h: forward declare struct file

In file included from include/asm/patch.h:14,
from arch/ia64/kernel/patch.c:10:
include/linux/elf.h:375: warning: "struct file" declared inside parameter list
include/linux/elf.h:375: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
386d9a7edd9f3492c99124b0a659e9ed7abb30f9 07-Dec-2006 Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> [PATCH] elf: Always define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h

Define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h. The size of the type is determined using
ELF_CLASS. This allows us to remove the defines that today are spread all
over .c and .h files.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bf1ab978be2318c5a564de9aa0f1a217b44170d4 23-Nov-2006 Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal@us.ibm.com> [POWERPC] coredump: Add SPU elf notes to coredump.

This patch adds SPU elf notes to the coredump. It creates a separate note
for each of /regs, /fpcr, /lslr, /decr, /decr_status, /mem, /signal1,
/signal1_type, /signal2, /signal2_type, /event_mask, /event_status,
/mbox_info, /ibox_info, /wbox_info, /dma_info, /proxydma_info, /object-id.

A new macro, ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_NOTES, was created for architectures to
specify they have extra elf core notes.

A new macro, ELF_CORE_EXTRA_NOTES_SIZE, was created so the size of the
additional notes could be calculated and added to the notes phdr entry.

A new macro, ELF_CORE_WRITE_EXTRA_NOTES, was created so the new notes
would be written after the existing notes.

The SPU coredump code resides in spufs. Stub functions are provided in the
kernel which are hooked into the spufs code which does the actual work via
register_arch_coredump_calls().

A new set of __spufs_<file>_read/get() functions was provided to allow the
coredump code to read from the spufs files without having to lock the
SPU context for each file read from.

Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
f001e47f83db18a9f202f25c0255b4d11ebe468b 27-Apr-2006 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Sanitise linux/audit.h for userspace consumption, split elf-em.h from elf.h

Don't include <linux/sched.h> outside __KERNEL__, and split the EM_xxx
definitions out of elf.h into elf-em.h so that audit.h can include just
that and not pollute the namespace any further than it needs to.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
b3f3d6141f8636f627bf19fd44eaf59a52637ac8 08-Jan-2006 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> [PATCH] ELF: symbol table type additions

Needed for the Novell kernel debugger and perhaps some per-cpu data on x86_64
in the future.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
36d57ac4a818cb4aa3edbdf63ad2ebc31106f925 07-Sep-2005 H. J. Lu <hjl@lucon.org> [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups

The size of auxiliary vector is fixed at 42 in linux/sched.h. But it isn't
very obvious when looking at linux/elf.h. This patch adds AT_VECTOR_SIZE
so that we can change it if necessary when a new vector is added.

Because of include file ordering problems, doing this necessitated the
extraction of the AT_* symbols into a standalone header file.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 17-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!