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 <[email protected]>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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