diff --git a/src/sys/prctl.rs b/src/sys/prctl.rs
index 42324beab2..1946bdf046 100644
--- a/src/sys/prctl.rs
+++ b/src/sys/prctl.rs
@@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ use crate::errno::Errno;
 use crate::sys::signal::Signal;
 use crate::Result;
 
-use libc::{c_int, c_ulong};
+use libc::{c_int, c_ulong, c_void};
 use std::convert::TryFrom;
 use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
+use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
+use std::ptr::NonNull;
 
 libc_enum! {
     /// The type of hardware memory corruption kill policy for the thread.
@@ -213,3 +215,10 @@ pub fn set_thp_disable(flag: bool) -> Result<()> {
 pub fn get_thp_disable() -> Result<bool> {
     prctl_get_bool(libc::PR_GET_THP_DISABLE)
 }
+
+/// Set an identifier (or reset it) to the address memory range.
+pub fn set_addr_name(addr: NonNull<c_void>, length: NonZeroUsize, name: &CStr) -> Result<()> {
+    let res = unsafe { libc::prctl(libc::PR_SET_VMA, libc::PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, addr.as_ptr(), length, name.as_ptr()) };
+
+    Errno::result(res).map(drop)
+}
diff --git a/test/sys/test_prctl.rs b/test/sys/test_prctl.rs
index 351213b7ef..000d87df81 100644
--- a/test/sys/test_prctl.rs
+++ b/test/sys/test_prctl.rs
@@ -122,4 +122,41 @@ mod test_prctl {
 
         prctl::set_thp_disable(original).unwrap();
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_set_addr_map() {
+        use nix::sys::mman;
+        use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
+
+        const ONE_K: libc::size_t = 1024;
+        let sz = NonZeroUsize::new(ONE_K).unwrap();
+        let ptr = unsafe {
+            mman::mmap_anonymous(
+                None,
+                sz,
+                mman::ProtFlags::PROT_READ,
+                mman::MapFlags::MAP_SHARED,
+            )
+            .unwrap()
+        };
+        // `CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME` kernel config might not be set
+        prctl::set_addr_name(
+            ptr,
+            sz,
+            CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(b"Nix\0").unwrap(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        prctl::set_addr_name(ptr, sz, unsafe {
+            CStr::from_ptr(std::ptr::null())
+        })
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            prctl::set_addr_name(
+                ptr,
+                sz,
+                CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(b"[wrong\0").unwrap()
+            ),
+            Err(nix::Error::EINVAL)
+        );
+    }
 }