Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:11:11 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] shm: Fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:43:34 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> Some user space tools need to identify SYSV shared memory when > examining /proc/<pid>/maps. To do so they look for a block device > with major zero, a dentry named SYSV<sysv key>, and having the minor of > the internal sysv shared memory kernel mount. > > To help these tools and to make it easier for people just browsing > /proc/<pid>/maps this patch modifies hugetlb sysv shared memory to > use the SYSV<key> dentry naming convention. > > User space tools will still have to be aware that hugetlb sysv > shared memory lives on a different internal kernel mount and so > has a different block device minor number from the rest of sysv > shared memory.
So.. I am sitting here believing that this patch and Badari's restore-shmid-as-inode-to-fix-proc-pid-maps-abi-breakage.patch are both needed in 2.6.22 and that they will fix all these issues up.
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