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Subject[RFD] how to get something like chkspace / kinfo_getvmmap?
Hi,

for implementing robust exception handlers that print out a backtrace in
the signal handler, it would be nice to have a syscall to check if a
memory access would fail.

I know that one can parse /proc/self/maps (like libsigsegv does).
libunwind employs an addrspace->access_mem() method that does an
unprotected access because there is no (easy) way on Linux.


How about enhancing mincore() with a few bits that tells the caller how
the protection bits are?
The main use case is in an embedded system to avoid that the handler
(already running on an alternate signal stack) faults if the stack pointer
achieved to point into the guard page - causing backtrace() to fail.

mincore() on FreeBSD provides some more bits, but still the access bits
are missing.

MINCORE_INCORE Page is in core (resident).
MINCORE_REFERENCED Page has been referenced by us.
MINCORE_MODIFIED Page has been modified by us.
MINCORE_REFERENCED_OTHER Page has been referenced.
MINCORE_MODIFIED_OTHER Page has been modified.
MINCORE_SUPER Page is part of a "super" page. (only i386 &
amd64)

add

MINCORE_PROT_W
MINCORE_PROT_R
MINCORE_PROT_X

So essentially I'm looking for a way for mgetprotect(2) or
mprotect(addr, len, PROT_GET, &prot_bits)?

But this is really ugly ;)


input welcome
Peter Wächtler

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