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authorCyrill Gorcunov2012-01-12 17:20:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2012-01-12 20:13:13 -0800
commitb3f7f573a20081910e34e99cbc91831f4f02f1ff (patch)
tree2c0aea64b3be4c24f84be6a5275f7202e0dde594 /Documentation
parent067bce1a06c1f84146f873a598cd7c3a28eee1d5 (diff)
c/r: procfs: add start_data, end_data, start_brk members to /proc/$pid/stat v4
The mm->start_code/end_code, mm->start_data/end_data, mm->start_brk are involved into calculation of program text/data segment sizes (which might be seen in /proc/<pid>/statm) and into brk() call final address. For restore we need to know all these values. While mm->start_code/end_code already present in /proc/$pid/stat, the rest members are not, so this patch brings them in. The restore procedure of these members is addressed in another patch using prctl(). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
blkio_ticks time spent waiting for block IO
gtime guest time of the task in jiffies
cgtime guest time of the task children in jiffies
+ start_data address above which program data+bss is placed
+ end_data address below which program data+bss is placed
+ start_brk address above which program heap can be expanded with brk()
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The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and