> 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:

 - Provide both print and dump command
 - Feedback Gerard
 - Feedbacj Johan

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16301/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16301/files/a3506fd6..3829abbf

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16301&range=06
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16301&range=05-06

  Stats: 200 lines in 9 files changed: 164 ins; 7 del; 29 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16301.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16301/head:pull/16301

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16301

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