[PATCH] arm: align shared memory unconditionally to the SHMLBA boundary

Alexander Kartashov alekskartashov at parallels.com
Tue Jul 16 06:47:45 EDT 2013


On 07/16/2013 02:36 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> shmget() doesn't allocate space in the process for the SHM region.  It
> merely creates the shm memory and returns an identifier for it which can
> later be used by shmat() to map it.
Thank you for the correction, I meant shmat() in that comment indeed.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

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