Re: EXtending `vminfo' towards `/proc/PID/maps' or `pmap PID'

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 09 Mar 2007 23:14:12 +0100, a écrit :
> Now, the question is: how to use the memory object id (which `vminfo'
> internally gets from the `vm_region' call) to trace back the pager /
> server providing that memory object and ask it about the file's name that
> is backing this region of memory?  Is this possible to do?

Just a pure guess (I really don't know much about all this): that will
require to resolve ports & such down to ext2fs, and even there getting
the _name_ of the file wouldn't be easy, since I guess only the inode is
kept.

Samuel