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30.Dd February 6, 2009
31.Dt PMAP 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm pmap
35.Nd display process memory map
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl adlmPRstv
39.Op Fl A Ar address
40.Op Fl D Ar number
41.Op Fl E Ar address
42.Op Fl M Ar core
43.Op Fl N Ar system
44.Op Fl p Ar pid
45.Op Fl S Ar address
46.Op Fl V Ar address
47.Op Ar pid ...
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51utility lists the virtual memory mappings underlying the given
52process.
53The start address of each entry is always given, and,
54depending on the options given, other information such as the end
55address, the underlying file's device and inode numbers, and various
56protection information will be displayed, along with the path to the
57file, if such data is available.
58.Pp
59By default,
60.Nm
61displays information for its parent process, so that when run from a
62shell prompt, the shell's memory information is displayed.
63If other
64PIDs are given as arguments on the command line, information for those
65processes will be printed also.
66If the special PID of 0 is given,
67then information for the kernel's memory map is printed.
68.Pp
69The options are as follows:
70.Bl -tag -width XXXnumberXX
71.It Fl A Ar address
72Dumps the vm_amap structure found at
73.Ar address .
74.It Fl a
75Display
76.Dq all
77information from the process's memory map.
78This output
79mode is an amalgam of the contents of the Solaris, Linux, and
80.Nx
81style output modes.
82.It Fl D Ar number
83Enable various debug facilities.
84The
85.Ar number
86is a bit mask of the values:
87.Pp
88.Bl -tag -width 0x1000 -compact
89.It Cm 0x01
90dump the process's vmspace structure
91.It Cm 0x02
92dump the process's vm_map structure
93.It Cm 0x04
94dump the vm_map.header structure
95.It Cm 0x08
96dump each vm_map_entry in its entirety
97.It Cm 0x10
98dump the vm_amap structure attached to the vm_map_entry, if applicable
99.It Cm 0x20
100dump the vm_amap slot data, if present (requires 0x10)
101.It Cm 0x40
102dump the vm_anon data from the am_anon array, if present (requires 0x20)
103.It Cm 0x1000
104dump the namei cache as it is traversed
105.El
106.It Fl d
107Dumps the vm_map and vm_map_entry structures in a style similar to
108that of
109.Xr ddb 4 .
110When combined with the
111.Fl v
112option, the device number, inode number, name, vnode addresses, or
113other identifying information from the vm_map_entries will be printed.
114.It Fl E Ar address
115Dumps the vm_map_entry structure found at
116.Ar address .
117.It Fl l
118Dumps information in a format like the contents of the maps
119pseudo-file under the
120.Pa /proc
121file system which was, in turn, modeled after the similarly named entry
122in the Linux
123.Pa /proc
124file system.
125When combined with the
126.Fl v
127option, identifiers for all entries are printed.
128.It Fl M Ar core
129Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
130instead of the default
131.Pa /dev/kmem .
132.It Fl m
133Dumps information in the same format as the map pseudo-file of the
134.Pa /proc
135file system.
136When the
137.Fl v
138option is also given, device number, inode number, and filename
139or other identifying information is printed.
140.It Fl N Ar system
141Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
142.Pa /netbsd .
143.It Fl P
144Causes
145.Nm
146to print information about itself.
147.It Fl p Ar pid
148Tells
149.Nm
150to print information about the given process.
151If
152.Fl p Ar pid
153occurs last on the command line, the
154.Fl p
155is optional.
156.It Fl R
157Recurse into submaps.
158In some cases, a vm_map_entry in the kernel
159will point to a submap.
160Using this flag tells
161.Nm
162to print the entries of the submap as well.
163The submap output is
164indented, and does not affect any total printed at the bottom of the
165output.
166.It Fl S Ar address
167Dumps the vmspace structure found at
168.Ar address .
169.It Fl s
170The Solaris style output format, modeled after the Solaris command of
171the same name.
172This is the default output style.
173.It Fl t
174Print entries to the underlying RB tree, root first, followed by lower
175and higher subtree, indented similar to submaps.
176.It Fl V Ar address
177Dumps the vm_map structure found at
178.Ar address .
179Note that if you print the vm_map of a process, there may not be a way
180to properly determine which map entries are related to the stack.
181.It Fl v
182Verbose output.
183When used with
184.Fl d ,
185.Fl l ,
186or
187.Fl m ,
188more information is printed, possibly including device and inode
189numbers, file path names, or other identifying information.
190If specified more than once, a small note will be printed in between
191two entries that are not adjacent, making the visual identification of
192spaces in the process's map easier to see, that indicates the number
193of pages and the amount of memory space that is skipped.
194.El
195.Pp
196The
197.Fl P
198and
199.Fl p
200options override each other, so the last one to appear on the command
201line takes effect.
202If you do wish to see information about
203.Nm
204and another process as the same time, simply omit the
205.Fl p
206and place the extra PID at the end of the command line.
207.Sh EXIT STATUS
208.Ex -std
209.Sh EXAMPLES
210While the meaning of most of the output is self-evident, some pieces of
211it may appear to be a little inscrutable.
212.Pp
213Here is a portion of the default output from
214.Nm
215being run at an
216.Xr sh 1
217prompt showing the starting address of the map entry, the size of the
218map entry, the current protection level of the map entry, and either
219the name of the file backing the entry or some other descriptive text.
220.Bd -literal -offset indent
221$ pmap
22208048000    420K read/exec         /bin/sh
223080B1000      8K read/write        /bin/sh
224080B3000     28K read/write          [ anon ]
225080BA000     16K read/write/exec     [ heap ]
226\&...
227.Ed
228.Pp
229When the
230.Xr ddb 4
231output style is selected, the first thing printed is the contents of
232the vm_map structure, followed by the individual map entries.
233.Bd -literal -offset indent
234$ pmap -d
235MAP 0xcf7cac84: [0x0->0xbfbfe000]
236        #ent=8, sz=34041856, ref=1, version=20, flags=0x41
237        pmap=0xcf44cee0(resident=<unknown>)
238 - 0xcfa3a358: 0x8048000->0x80b1000: obj=0xcf45a8e8/0x0, amap=0x0/0
239        submap=F, cow=T, nc=T, prot(max)=5/7, inh=1, wc=0, adv=0
240\&...
241.Ed
242.Pp
243The value of the flags field (in hexadecimal) is taken from
244the include file
245.In uvm/uvm_map.h :
246.Bl -column VM_MAP_WIREFUTURE VM_MAP_WIREFUTURE -offset indent
247.It Dv "VM_MAP_PAGEABLE"   Ta No "0x01   entries are pageable"
248.It Dv "VM_MAP_INTRSAFE"   Ta No "0x02   interrupt safe map"
249.It Dv "VM_MAP_WIREFUTURE" Ta No "0x04   future mappings are wired"
250.It Dv "VM_MAP_BUSY"       Ta No "0x08   map is busy"
251.It Dv "VM_MAP_WANTLOCK"   Ta No "0x10   want to write-lock"
252.It Dv "VM_MAP_DYING"      Ta No "0x20   map is being destroyed"
253.It Dv "VM_MAP_TOPDOWN"    Ta No "0x40   arrange map top-down"
254.El
255.Pp
256The
257.Dq submap ,
258.Dq cow ,
259and
260.Dq nc
261fields are true or false, and indicate whether the map is a submap,
262whether it is marked for copy on write, and whether it needs a copy.
263The
264.Dq prot
265\&(or protection) field, along with
266.Dq max
267\&(maximum protection allowed) are made up of the following flags from
268.In uvm/uvm_extern.h :
269.\" this column width specifically chosen so that all the header file
270.\" excerpts appear to line up cleanly
271.Bl -column VM_MAP_WIREFUTURE VM_MAP_WIREFUTURE -offset indent
272.It Dv "UVM_PROT_READ"  Ta No "0x01   read allowed"
273.It Dv "UVM_PROT_WRITE" Ta No "0x02   write allowed"
274.It Dv "UVM_PROT_EXEC"  Ta No "0x04   execute allowed"
275.El
276.Pp
277The
278.Dq obj
279and
280.Dq amap
281fields are pointers to, and offsets into, the underlying uvm_object or
282amap.
283The value for resident is always unknown because digging such
284information out of the kernel is beyond the scope of this application.
285.Pp
286The two output styles that mirror the contents of the
287.Pa /proc
288file system
289appear as follows:
290.Bd -literal -offset indent
291$ pmap -m
2920x8048000 0x80b1000 r-x rwx COW NC 1 0 0
2930x80b1000 0x80b3000 rw- rwx COW NC 1 0 0
2940x80b3000 0x80ba000 rw- rwx COW NNC 1 0 0
2950x80ba000 0x80be000 rwx rwx COW NNC 1 0 0
296\&...
297
298$ pmap -l
29908048000-080b1000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 70173     /bin/sh
300080b1000-080b3000 rw-p 00068000 00:00 70173     /bin/sh
301080b3000-080ba000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
302080ba000-080be000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
303\&...
304.Ed
305.Pp
306Here the protection and maximum protection values are indicated with
307.Sq r ,
308.Sq w ,
309and
310.Sq x
311characters, indicating read permission, write permission, and execute
312permission, respectively.
313The
314.Dq COW ,
315.Dq NC ,
316and
317.Dq NNC
318values that follow indicate, again, that the map is marked for copy on
319write and either needs or does not need a copy.
320It is also possible
321to see the value
322.Dq NCOW
323here, which indicates that an entry will not be copied.
324The three
325following numbers indicate the inheritance type of the map, the wired
326count of the map, and any advice value assigned via
327.Xr madvise 2 .
328.Pp
329In the second form, the permissions indicated are followed by a
330.Sq p
331or
332.Sq s
333character indicating whether the map entry is private or shared (copy
334on write or not), and the numbers are the offset into the underlying
335object, the device and numbers of the object if it is a file, and the
336path to the file (if available).
337.Pp
338As noted above (see section
339.Sx DESCRIPTION ) ,
340the
341.Dq all
342output format is an amalgam of the previous output formats.
343.Bd -literal -offset indent
344$ pmap -a
345Start    End         Size  Offset   rwxpc  RWX  I/W/A ...
34608048000-080b0fff     420k 00000000 r-xp+ (rwx) 1/0/0 ...
347\&...
348.Ed
349.Pp
350In this format, the column labeled
351.Dq rwxpc
352contains the permissions for the mapping along with the shared/private
353flag, and a character indicating whether the mapping needs to be
354copied on write
355.Pq Sq \&+
356or has already been copied
357.Pq Sq \&-
358and is followed by a column that indicates the maximum permissions for
359the map entry.
360The column labeled
361.Dq I/W/A
362indicates the inheritance, wired, and advice values for the map entry,
363as previously described.
364The pointer value at the end of the output line for entries backed by
365vnodes is the address of the vnode in question.
366.Sh SEE ALSO
367.Xr ls 1 ,
368.Xr stat 1 ,
369.Xr madvise 2 ,
370.Xr mmap 2 ,
371.Xr kvm 3 ,
372.Xr ddb 4 ,
373.Xr mount_procfs 8 ,
374.Xr pmap 9
375.Sh HISTORY
376The
377.Nm
378utility appeared in
379.Nx 2.0 .
380.Sh AUTHORS
381The
382.Nm
383utility and documentation was written by
384.An Andrew Brown
385.Aq atatat@NetBSD.org .
386.Sh BUGS
387Very little will work unless
388.Nm
389is reading from the correct kernel in order to retrieve the
390proper symbol information.
391.Pp
392Since processes can change state while
393.Nm
394is running, some of the information printed may be inaccurate.
395This
396is especially important to consider when examining the kernel's map,
397since merely executing
398.Nm
399will cause some of the information to change.
400.Pp
401The pathnames to files backing certain vnodes (such as the text and
402data sections of programs and shared libraries) are extracted from the
403kernel's namei cache which is considerably volatile.
404If a path is not
405found there in its entirety, as much information as was available
406will be printed.
407In most cases, simply running
408.Xr ls 1
409or
410.Xr stat 1
411with the expected path to the file will cause the information to be
412reentered into the cache.
413.Pp
414The Solaris command by the same name has some interesting command line
415flags that would be nice to emulate here.
416In particular, the
417.Fl r
418option that lists a process's reserved addresses, and the
419.Fl x
420option that prints resident/shared/private mapping details for each
421entry.
422.Pp
423Some of the output modes can be or are wider than the standard 80
424columns of a terminal.
425Some sort of formatting might be nice.
426.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
427The Solaris command controls access to processes the user does not own
428via the permissions of its
429.Pa /proc
430file system.
431Since
432.Nm
433uses
434.Xr kvm 3
435to read the requested data directly from kernel memory, no such
436limitation exists.
437.Pp
438If any of the
439.Fl A ,
440.Fl E ,
441.Fl M ,
442.Fl N ,
443.Fl S ,
444or
445.Fl V
446options are used, any extra privileges that
447.Nm
448has will be dropped.
449