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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2006-09-27 04:50:21 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-27 11:26:14 -0400 |
commit | 0112c4c6461fed12ed9bcb249f967bc17a23f6c4 (patch) | |
tree | 7e42f8bbce885b4dfa88ff109960235c246e4da5 | |
parent | 6fa5f80bc34da1a49b42117602b44441402cac2f (diff) |
[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>
-rw-r--r-- | 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 3ce890664936..4db7c18bf68c 100644 --- a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt | |||
@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ FURTHER NOTES ON NO-MMU MMAP | |||
129 | with character device files, pipes, fifos and sockets. | 129 | with character device files, pipes, fifos and sockets. |
130 | 130 | ||
131 | 131 | ||
132 | ========================== | ||
133 | INTERPROCESS SHARED MEMORY | ||
134 | ========================== | ||
135 | |||
136 | Both SYSV IPC SHM shared memory and POSIX shared memory is supported in NOMMU | ||
137 | mode. The former through the usual mechanism, the latter through files created | ||
138 | on ramfs or tmpfs mounts. | ||
139 | |||
140 | |||
132 | ============= | 141 | ============= |
133 | NO-MMU MREMAP | 142 | NO-MMU MREMAP |
134 | ============= | 143 | ============= |