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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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Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
··· 129 129 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 ============= 133 142 NO-MMU MREMAP 134 143 =============