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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-09-27 01:50:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 08:26:14 -0700
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[PATCH] NOMMU: Add docs about shared memory
Add documentation about using shared memory in NOMMU mode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -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
=============