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Based on kib's reply on https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2016-July/049710.html PR: 210904 Submitted by: Yuri Victorovich <yuri AT rawbw DOT com> Reviewed by: jilles Approved by: bcr (mentor) MFC after: 5 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12004
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.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Peter Wemm
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd August 18, 2017
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.Dt KINFO_GETVMMAP 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm kinfo_getvmmap
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.Nd function for getting per-process memory map information
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libutil
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In sys/user.h
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.In libutil.h
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.Ft struct kinfo_vmentry *
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.Fn kinfo_getvmmap "pid_t pid" "int *cntp"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This function is used for obtaining virtual memory mapping information
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of a particular process.
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.Pp
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The
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.Ar pid
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field contains the process identifier.
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This should be the a process that you have privilege to access.
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The
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.Ar cntp
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field is allows the caller to know how many records are returned.
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.Pp
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This function is a wrapper around
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.Xr sysctl 3
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with the
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.Dv KERN_PROC_VMMAP
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mib.
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While the kernel returns a packed structure, this function expands the
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data into a fixed record format.
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.Sh CAVEAT
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.Fn kinfo_getvmmap
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calls can cause significant CPU consumption because calculating the residency
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counts requires iterating over all memory pages of the process.
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Setting the sysctl variable
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.Va kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count
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to 1 prevents this calculation.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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On success the
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.Fn kinfo_getvmmap
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function returns a pointer to an array of
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.Vt struct kinfo_vmentry
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structures as defined by
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.In sys/user.h .
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The array was obtained by an internal call to
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.Xr malloc 3
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and must be freed by the caller with a call to
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.Xr free 3 .
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On failure the
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.Fn kinfo_getvmmap
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function returns
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.Dv NULL .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr free 3 ,
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.Xr kinfo_getfile 3 ,
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.Xr malloc 3
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