When trying to diagnose a memory corruption problem, you should know what other kernel entities hold a copy of a particular pointer. This is important because it can reveal which thread accessed a data structure after it was freed. It can also make it easier to understand what kernel entities are sharing knowledge of a particular (valid) data item. The ::whatis and ::kgrep dcmds can be used to answer these questions. You can apply ::whatis to a value of interest:
> 0x705d8640::whatis 705d8640 is 705d8000+640, allocated from kmem_va_8192 705d8640 is 705d8640+0, allocated from streams_mblk
In this case, 0x705d8640 is revealed to be a pointer to a STREAMS mblk structure. Notice that this allocation also appears in the kmem_va_8192 cache--a kmem cache that is fronting the kmem_va virtual memory arena. The complete list of kmem caches and vmem arenas is displayed by the ::kmastat dcmd. You can use ::kgrep to locate other kernel addresses that contain a pointer to this mblk. This illustrates the hierarchical nature of memory allocations in the system; in general, you can determine the type of object referred to by the given address from the name of the most specific kmem cache.
> 0x705d8640::kgrep 400a3720 70580d24 7069d7f0 706a37ec 706add34
and investigate them by applying ::whatis again:
> 400a3720::whatis 400a3720 is in thread 7095b240's stack > 706add34::whatis 706add34 is 706ac000+1d34, allocated from kmem_va_8192 706add34 is 706add20+14, allocated from streams_dblk_120
Here one pointer is located on the stack of a known kernel thread, and another is the mblk pointer inside of the corresponding STREAMS dblk structure.