RFR: JDK-8318636: Add jcmd to print annotated process memory map [v12]

Johan Sjölen jsjolen at openjdk.org
Fri Nov 10 09:48:11 UTC 2023


On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:38:24 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Analysts and supporters often use /proc/xx/maps to make sense of the memory footprint of a process.
>> 
>> Interpreting the memory map correctly can help when used as a complement to other tools (e.g. NMT). There even exist tools out there that attempt to annotate the process memory map with JVM information.
>> 
>> That, however, can be more accurately done from within the JVM, at least for mappings originating from hotspot. After all, we can correlate the mapping information in NMT with the VMA map.
>> 
>> Example output (from a spring petstore run):
>> 
>> [example_system_map.txt](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/files/13179054/example_system_map.txt)
>> 
>> This patch adds the VM annotations for VMAs that are *mmaped*. I also have an experimental patch that works with malloc'ed memory, but it is not ready yet for consumption and I leave that part of for now.
>
> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with three additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - add test to test dumping to specific location
>  - change filename arg from -f to -F to prevent conflicts with jcmd -f
>  - print errno if dump file cannot be opened

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your hard work on this! LGTM.

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Marked as reviewed by jsjolen (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16301#pullrequestreview-1724406291


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