On Linux, use PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME to name memory mappings #3351
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This new Linux
prctl
call allows a name to be set for anonymous memory mappings. This is useful for debugging (especially performance debugging), as the names show up in/proc/$PID/smaps
and are not coalesced with other mappings. (This means that questions like "how much of this process's RSS is OCaml heap" are answerable fromsmaps
).On a kernel that supports it, here's what part of smaps looks like: