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[PATCH] NOMMU: Add docs about shared memory
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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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David Howells authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 27, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ FURTHER NOTES ON NO-MMU MMAP
with character device files, pipes, fifos and sockets.


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INTERPROCESS SHARED MEMORY
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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.


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NO-MMU MREMAP
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