Andrew, Can you include this in -mm ?
Thanks, Badari shmid used to be stored as inode# for shared memory segments. Some of the proc-ps tools use this from /proc/pid/maps. Recent cleanups to newseg() changed it. This patch sets inode number back to shared memory id to fix breakage. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/ipc/shm.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/ipc/shm.c 2007-06-08 15:17:20.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/ipc/shm.c 2007-06-08 15:19:38.000000000 -0700 @@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ static int newseg (struct ipc_namespace shp->shm_nattch = 0; shp->id = shm_buildid(ns, id, shp->shm_perm.seq); shp->shm_file = file; + /* + * shmid gets reported as "inode#" in /proc/pid/maps. + * proc-ps tools use this. Changing this will break them. + */ + file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_ino = shp->id; ns->shm_tot += numpages; shm_unlock(shp); - 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/