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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shm: Fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:01:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r6olr1y8.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466A2D4F.3040300@us.ibm.com> (Badari Pulavarty's message of "Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:32:15 -0700")

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.

Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-09  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-07  3:27 [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match "ipcs -m" shmid Albert Cahalan
2007-06-07  3:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  4:53   ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-07 16:20     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-08  3:45       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-08  4:41         ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-08  5:55           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-08  6:51             ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-08 22:31               ` [PATCH] Restore shmid as inode# to fix /proc/pid/maps ABI breakage Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-08 16:07         ` [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match "ipcs -m" shmid Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-08 23:43           ` [PATCH] shm: Fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-08 23:55             ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-09  4:32               ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-09  8:01                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-06-11 18:11             ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-11 19:55               ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-11 19:00             ` Adam Litke
2007-06-11 20:53               ` Ken Chen
2007-06-07 16:23     ` [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match "ipcs -m" shmid Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-07 16:43       ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-07 17:06         ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-07 19:48           ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 19:59             ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-07 20:37               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-07 20:51                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-07 21:16                 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-07 22:08                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-07 22:21                     ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-06-07 22:22                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-07 23:57                       ` Badari Pulavarty

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