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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-04-14 13:18:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-04-14 13:19:04 +0200 |
| commit | 6ac1ef482d7ae0c690f1640bf6eb818ff9a2d91e (patch) | |
| tree | 021cc9f6b477146fcebe6f3be4752abfa2ba18a9 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 682968e0c425c60f0dde37977e5beb2b12ddc4cc (diff) | |
| parent | a385ec4f11bdcf81af094c03e2444ee9b7fad2e5 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobes
Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree),
to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM
changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a76a26a1db8a..b7413cb46dcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) rsslim current limit in bytes on the rss start_code address above which program text can run end_code address below which program text can run - start_stack address of the start of the stack + start_stack address of the start of the main process stack esp current value of ESP eip current value of EIP pending bitmap of pending signals @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ address perms offset dev inode pathname a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 +a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1001] a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 @@ -357,11 +357,39 @@ is not associated with a file: [heap] = the heap of the program [stack] = the stack of the main process + [stack:1001] = the stack of the thread with tid 1001 [vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object", the kernel system call handler or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. +The /proc/PID/task/TID/maps is a view of the virtual memory from the viewpoint +of the individual tasks of a process. In this file you will see a mapping marked +as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. This is a key difference from the +content of /proc/PID/maps, where you will see all mappings that are being used +as stack by all of those tasks. Hence, for the example above, the task-level +map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this: + +08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/test +08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test +0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] +a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 +a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 +a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 +a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] +a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 +a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 +a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 +a800b000-a800e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 +a800e000-a8022000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 +a8022000-a8023000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 +a8023000-a8024000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 +a8024000-a8027000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 +a8027000-a8043000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 +a8043000-a8044000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 +a8044000-a8045000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 +aff35000-aff4a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 +ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each of mappings there |