Hi folks, This patch implements a minimal filesystem for shared memory. It replaces/reuses the existing SYSV shm code so you now have to mount the fs to be able to use SYSV SHM. But in turn we now have everything in place to implement posix shm. This also obsoletes vm_private_data in vm_area_struct. Also it is now possible to do e.g. 'rm /dev/shm/*' instead of this terrible 'ipcrm shm xx' :-) You can mount the fs only once. This will probably break shm in chrooted environments. It is heavily tested from UP to 8way SMP with HIGHMEM. On the latter the shm handling triggers some mm bugs under heavy swapping. But these problems also exists in the stock 2.3.36 kernel (I cannot boot 2.3.3[78] on my 8way). I will report these problems later in a separate mail. Greetings Christoph