Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match "ipcs -m" shmid

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On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:27:01 -0400 "Albert Cahalan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Eric W. Biederman writes:
> > Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> Your recent cleanup to shm code, namely
> >>
> >> [PATCH] shm: make sysv ipc shared memory use stacked files
> >>
> >> took away one of the debugging feature for shm segments.
> >> Originally, shmid were forced to be the inode numbers and
> >> they show up in /proc/pid/maps for the process which mapped
> >> this shared memory segments (vma listing). That way, its easy
> >> to find out who all mapped this shared memory segment. Your
> >> patchset, took away the inode# setting. So, we can't easily
> >> match the shmem segments to /proc/pid/maps easily. (It was
> >> really useful in tracking down a customer problem recently).
> >> Is this done deliberately ? Anything wrong in setting this back ?
> >
> > Theoretically it makes the stacked file concept more brittle,
> > because it means the lower layers can't care about their inode
> > number.
> >
> > We do need something to tie these things together.
> >
> > So I suspect what makes most sense is to simply rename the
> > dentry SYSVID<segmentid>
> 
> Please stop breaking things in /proc. The pmap command relys
> on the old behavior.

What effect did this change have upon the pmap command?  Details, please.

> It's time to revert.

Probably true, but we'd need to understand what the impact was.
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