Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] shm: Fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory | Date | Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:01:35 -0600 |
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Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> writes:
> No. You still need my patch to fix the current breakage.
Agreed.
> This patch makes hugetlbfs also use same naming convention as regular shmem for > its > name. This is not absolutely needed, its a nice to have. Currently, user space > tools > can't depend on the filename alone, since its not unique (based on kry).
Exactly. My patch is an additional fix/cleanup to bring the hugetlbfs shm segments as close to their normal counterparts as I can.
pmap still won't recognize them as shm segments (different block device minor number) but otherwise they are now presented identically with normal shm segments.
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