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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] NOMMU: Add docs about shared memory
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:35:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060831213539.29363.21990.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060831213530.29363.6372.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Add documentation about using shared memory in NOMMU mode.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
index 3ce8906..4db7c18 100644
--- a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ FURTHER NOTES ON NO-MMU MMAP
      with character device files, pipes, fifos and sockets.
 
 
+==========================
+INTERPROCESS SHARED MEMORY
+==========================
+
+Both SYSV IPC SHM shared memory and POSIX shared memory is supported in NOMMU
+mode.  The former through the usual mechanism, the latter through files created
+on ramfs or tmpfs mounts.
+
+
 =============
 NO-MMU MREMAP
 =============

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-31 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 21:35 [PATCH 1/4] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU David Howells
2006-08-31 21:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] NOMMU: Order the per-mm_struct VMA list David Howells
2006-08-31 21:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] NOMMU: Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels David Howells
2006-08-31 21:35 ` David Howells [this message]

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