On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:28:51 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stu...@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:
> 
>  - Fix spelling
>  - timeout fuse
>  - Feedback Johan

Taking a look...

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16301#issuecomment-1783130267

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