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24.Dd December 7, 2015
25.Dt PROC_RWMEM 9
26.Os
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm proc_rwmem ,
29.Nm proc_readmem ,
30.Nm proc_writemem
31.Nd read from or write to a process address space
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.In sys/types.h
34.In sys/ptrace.h
35.Ft int
36.Fn proc_rwmem "struct proc *p" "struct uio *uio"
37.Ft ssize_t
38.Fn proc_readmem "struct thread *td" "struct proc *p" "vm_offset_t va" "void *buf" "size_t len"
39.Ft ssize_t
40.Fn proc_writemem "struct thread *td" "struct proc *p" "vm_offset_t va" "void *buf" "size_t len"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42These functions are used to read to or write from the address space of the
43process
44.Fa p .
45The
46.Fn proc_rwmem
47function requires the caller to specify the I/O parameters using a
48.Vt "struct uio" ,
49described in
50.Xr uio 9 .
51The
52.Fn proc_readmem
53and
54.Fn proc_writemem
55functions provide a simpler, less general interface which allows the caller to
56read into or write the kernel buffer
57.Fa buf
58of size
59.Fa len
60from or to the memory at offset
61.Fa va
62in the address space of
63.Fa p .
64The operation is performed on behalf of thread
65.Fa td ,
66which will most often be the current thread.
67.Pp
68These functions may sleep and thus may not be called with any non-sleepable
69locks held.
70The process
71.Fa p
72must be held by the caller using
73.Xr PHOLD 9 .
74.Sh RETURN VALUES
75The
76.Fn proc_rwmem
77function returns
78.Dv 0
79on success.
80.Dv EFAULT
81is returned if the specified user address is invalid, and
82.Dv ENOMEM
83is returned if the target pages could not be faulted in due to a resource
84shortage.
85.Pp
86The
87.Fn proc_readmem
88and
89.Fn proc_writemem
90functions return the number of bytes read or written, respectively.
91This may be smaller than the number of bytes requested, for example if the
92request spans multiple pages in the process address space and one of them after
93the first is not mapped.
94Otherwise, -1 is returned.
95.Sh SEE ALSO
96.Xr copyin 9 ,
97.Xr locking 9 ,
98.Xr PHOLD 9 ,
99.Xr uio 9
100.Sh AUTHORS
101This manual page was written by
102.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org .
103