On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:43:34 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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. If that is untrue, someone please let us know.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
