1// Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. 2// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be 3// found in the LICENSE file. 4 5#ifndef BASE_DEBUG_PROC_MAPS_LINUX_H_ 6#define BASE_DEBUG_PROC_MAPS_LINUX_H_ 7 8#include <stdint.h> 9 10#include <string> 11#include <vector> 12 13#include "base/base_export.h" 14 15namespace base { 16namespace debug { 17 18// Describes a region of mapped memory and the path of the file mapped. 19struct MappedMemoryRegion { 20 enum Permission { 21 READ = 1 << 0, 22 WRITE = 1 << 1, 23 EXECUTE = 1 << 2, 24 PRIVATE = 1 << 3, // If set, region is private, otherwise it is shared. 25 }; 26 27 // The address range [start,end) of mapped memory. 28 uintptr_t start; 29 uintptr_t end; 30 31 // Byte offset into |path| of the range mapped into memory. 32 unsigned long long offset; 33 34 // Bitmask of read/write/execute/private/shared permissions. 35 uint8_t permissions; 36 37 // Name of the file mapped into memory. 38 // 39 // NOTE: path names aren't guaranteed to point at valid files. For example, 40 // "[heap]" and "[stack]" are used to represent the location of the process' 41 // heap and stack, respectively. 42 std::string path; 43}; 44 45// Reads the data from /proc/self/maps and stores the result in |proc_maps|. 46// Returns true if successful, false otherwise. 47// 48// There is *NO* guarantee that the resulting contents will be free of 49// duplicates or even contain valid entries by time the method returns. 50// 51// 52// THE GORY DETAILS 53// 54// Did you know it's next-to-impossible to atomically read the whole contents 55// of /proc/<pid>/maps? You would think that if we passed in a large-enough 56// buffer to read() that It Should Just Work(tm), but sadly that's not the case. 57// 58// Linux's procfs uses seq_file [1] for handling iteration, text formatting, 59// and dealing with resulting data that is larger than the size of a page. That 60// last bit is especially important because it means that seq_file will never 61// return more than the size of a page in a single call to read(). 62// 63// Unfortunately for a program like Chrome the size of /proc/self/maps is 64// larger than the size of page so we're forced to call read() multiple times. 65// If the virtual memory table changed in any way between calls to read() (e.g., 66// a different thread calling mprotect()), it can make seq_file generate 67// duplicate entries or skip entries. 68// 69// Even if seq_file was changed to keep flushing the contents of its page-sized 70// buffer to the usermode buffer inside a single call to read(), it has to 71// release its lock on the virtual memory table to handle page faults while 72// copying data to usermode. This puts us in the same situation where the table 73// can change while we're copying data. 74// 75// Alternatives such as fork()-and-suspend-the-parent-while-child-reads were 76// attempted, but they present more subtle problems than it's worth. Depending 77// on your use case your best bet may be to read /proc/<pid>/maps prior to 78// starting other threads. 79// 80// [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/Documents/SeqFileHowTo 81BASE_EXPORT bool ReadProcMaps(std::string* proc_maps); 82 83// Parses /proc/<pid>/maps input data and stores in |regions|. Returns true 84// and updates |regions| if and only if all of |input| was successfully parsed. 85BASE_EXPORT bool ParseProcMaps(const std::string& input, 86 std::vector<MappedMemoryRegion>* regions); 87 88} // namespace debug 89} // namespace base 90 91#endif // BASE_DEBUG_PROC_MAPS_LINUX_H_ 92