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Linux Kernel Programming

You're reading from   Linux Kernel Programming A comprehensive guide to kernel internals, writing kernel modules, and kernel synchronization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789953435
Length 754 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Kernel Workspace Setup FREE CHAPTER 3. Building the 5.x Linux Kernel from Source - Part 1 4. Building the 5.x Linux Kernel from Source - Part 2 5. Writing Your First Kernel Module - LKMs Part 1 6. Writing Your First Kernel Module - LKMs Part 2 7. Section 2: Understanding and Working with the Kernel
8. Kernel Internals Essentials - Processes and Threads 9. Memory Management Internals - Essentials 10. Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors - Part 1 11. Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors - Part 2 12. The CPU Scheduler - Part 1 13. The CPU Scheduler - Part 2 14. Section 3: Delving Deeper
15. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1 16. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2 17. About Packt 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interpreting the /proc/PID/maps output

To interpret the output of Figure 7.6, read it one line at a time. Each line represents a segment or mapping of the user-mode VAS of the process in question (in the preceding example, it's of the cat process). Each line consists of the following fields.

To make it easier, I will show just a single line of output whose fields we will label and refer to in the following notes:

 start_uva  -  end_uva   mode,mapping  start-off   mj:mn inode# image-name 
555d83b65000-555d83b6d000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 524313 /bin/cat

Here, the entire line represents a segment, or more correctly, a mapping within the process (user) VAS. uva is the user virtual address. start_uva and end_uva for each segment are displayed as the first two fields (or columns). Thus, the length of the mapping (segment) is easily calculated (end_uvastart_uva bytes). Thus, in the preceding line, start_uva is 0x555d83b65000 and end_uva...

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