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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>2015-02-12 02:28:31 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-12 04:06:07 +0300
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: describe /proc/<pid>/map_files
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweaks] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Table of Contents
3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children
3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
+ 3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files
4 Configuring procfs
4.1 Mount options
@@ -1763,6 +1764,28 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
with TIMER_ABSTIME option which will be shown in 'settime flags', but 'it_value'
still exhibits timer's remaining time.
+3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+This directory contains symbolic links which represent memory mapped files
+the process is maintaining. Example output:
+
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c600000-333c620000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c81f000-333c820000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c820000-333c821000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
+ | ...
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 35d0421000-35d0422000 -> /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 400000-41a000 -> /usr/bin/ls
+
+The name of a link represents the virtual memory bounds of a mapping, i.e.
+vm_area_struct::vm_start-vm_area_struct::vm_end.
+
+The main purpose of the map_files is to retrieve a set of memory mapped
+files in a fast way instead of parsing /proc/<pid>/maps or
+/proc/<pid>/smaps, both of which contain many more records. At the same
+time one can open(2) mappings from the listings of two processes and
+comparing their inode numbers to figure out which anonymous memory areas
+are actually shared.
+
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Configuring procfs
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