UNIX Parameter
$sudo cat /proc/1/maps
[sudo] password for jeffrin:
00400000-00409000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 6070276 /sbin/init
00608000-00609000 r--p 00008000 08:01 6070276 /sbin/init
00609000-0060a000 rw-p 00009000 08:01 6070276 /sbin/init
01c21000-01c42000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7f641ff63000-7f641ff100000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 14532647 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
7f641ff100000-7f64201100000 ---p 00002000 08:01 14532647 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
7f64201100000-7f6420166000 r--p 00002000 08:01 14532647 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
7f6420166000-7f6420167000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 14532647 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
7f6420167000-7f64202e4000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 14532633 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f64202e4000-7f64204e4000 ---p 0017d000 08:01 14532633 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f64204e4000-7f64204e8000 r--p 0017d000 08:01 14532633 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f64204e8000-7f64204e9000 rw-p 00181000 08:01 14532633 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f64204e9000-7f64204ee000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f64204ee000-7f642050b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 95764100 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7f642050b000-7f642070b000 ---p 0001d000 08:01 95764100 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7f642070b000-7f642070c000 r--p 0001d000 08:01 95764100 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7f642070c000-7f642070d000 rw-p 0001e000 08:01 95764100 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7f642070d000-7f642070e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f642070e000-7f642074c000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 14401899 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsepol.so.1
7f642074c000-7f642094c000 ---p 0003e000 08:01 14401899 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsepol.so.1
7f642094c000-7f642094d000 rw-p 0003e000 08:01 14401899 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsepol.so.1
7f642094d000-7f642096c000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 14532660 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
7f6420b44000-7f6420b48000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f6420b6a000-7f6420b6c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f6420b6c000-7f6420b6d000 r--p 0001f000 08:01 14532660 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
7f6420b6d000-7f6420b6e000 rw-p 00020000 08:01 14532660 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
7f6420b6e000-7f6420b6f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fffa543c000-7fffa545d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
7fffa55ff000-7fffa5600000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
Parameter Definition
The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and
their access permissions.
where "address" is the address space in the process that it occupies, "perms"
is a set of permissions:
r = read
w = write
x = execute
s = shared
p = private (copy on write)
"offset" is the offset into the mapping, "dev" is the device (major:minor), and
"inode" is the inode on that device. 0 indicates that no inode is associated
with the memory region, as the case would be with BSS (uninitialized data).
The "pathname" shows the name associated file for this mapping. If the mapping
is not associated with a file:
[heap] = the heap of the program
[stack] = the stack of the main process
[vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object",
the kernel system call handler
or if empty, the mapping is anonymous.
Parameter Code Related Internals
struct proc_dir_entry *my_proc_file = NULL;
/* Create a proc file */
my_proc_file = create_proc_entry("rt-embedded", S_IRUSR |S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH, NULL);
if (my_proc_file)
{
/* Setup the Read and Write functions */
my_proc_file->read_proc = my_proc_read;
my_proc_file->write_proc = my_proc_write;
}
Related From a Paper
The full address space of a process is rarely used, only sparse regions are. Each
region is represented by a vm_area_struct which never overlap and represent a set
of addresses with the same protection and purpose. Examples of a region include
a read-only shared library loaded into the address space or the process heap. A
full list of mapped regions a process has may be viewed via the proc interface at
/proc/PID/maps where PID is the process ID of the process that is to be examined.
The region may have a number of di?erent structures associated with it as illus-
trated in Figure 5.2. At the top, there is the vm_area_struct which on its own is
enough to represent anonymous memory.
If a ?le is memory mapped, the struct ?le is available through the vm_file ?eld
which has a pointer to the struct inode. The inode is used to get the struct
address_space which has all the private information about the ?le including a set
of pointers to ?lesystem functions which perform the ?lesystem speci?c operations
such as reading and writing pages to disk
source :
Understanding The
Linux Virtual Memory Manager
Mel Gorman
15th February 2004
http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/learning/Csc521.071/notes/understand.pdf
Theory Drop
In computer science, a heap is a specialized tree-based data
structure that satisfies the heap property
Heaps
A binary tree has the heap property iff
it is empty or
the key in the root is larger than that in either child and both subtrees have the heap property.
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_(data_structure)
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jmor159/PLDS210/heaps.html
Fix Required
Related from Paper section has junk charecters
which should be replaced by proper letters.