From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH] shm: Fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory References: <787b0d920706062027s5a8fd35q752f8da5d446afc@mail.gmail.com> <20070606204432.b670a7b1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <787b0d920706062153u7ad64179p1c4f3f663c3882f@mail.gmail.com> <20070607162004.GA27802@vino.hallyn.com> <46697EDA.9000209@us.ibm.com> <20070608165505.aa15fcdb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <466A2D4F.3040300@us.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:01:35 -0600 In-Reply-To: <466A2D4F.3040300@us.ibm.com> (Badari Pulavarty's message of "Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:32:15 -0700") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Andrew Morton , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: Badari Pulavarty 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org