Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:52:42 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] prctl: Get private anonymous memory region name | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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On 26.11.23 14:56, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 11/26, Rong Tao wrote: >> >> then the PR_GET_VMA interface should be provided accordingly, >> which is necessary, as the userspace program usually wants to know what >> VMA name it has configured for the anonymous page. > > I don't really understand the use-case for PR_GET_VMA ... >
Can't we simply read "/proc/PID/maps" and just have that information from there?
Also, I don't understand the exact use case, that should be clarified -- especially, why the existing way is insufficient.
-- Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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