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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 79b3cc821e7b..cf8fc2f0b34b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -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. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Configuring procfs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |