Re: [PATCH v2] prctl: Get private anonymous memory region name

[David Hildenbrand]

On 26.11.23 14:56, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 11/26, Rong Tao wrote:
> > then the PR_GET_VMA interface should be provided accordingly,
> > which is necessary, as the userspace program usually wants to know what
> > VMA name it has configured for the anonymous page.
>
> I don't really understand the use-case for PR_GET_VMA ...

Can't we simply read "/proc/PID/maps" and just have that information 
from there?

Also, I don't understand the exact use case, that should be clarified -- 
especially, why the existing way is insufficient.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb