How to find all the tasks with a Sys V shm?

From: Kamran Karimi
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 13:38:57 EST


Hello all,

In 2.2 kernels one could access the vma segments of a Sys V shared memory (shm) through:
shp->attaches. In 2.6 kernels a shm is managed through a file. The question is: given a Sys V key value, how can we find all the tasks that have attached the corresponding shm?

We can do the following (with error checking ignored):

id = ipc_findkey(&shm_ids, key);
shp = shm_lock(id);

tsk = find_task_by_pid(shp->shm_cprid);

vma = tsk->mm->mmap;
while(vma) {
if(vma->vm_file == shp->shm_file)
break;
vma = vma->vm_next;
}
shm_unlock(shp);

But here we only get the vma of the task that created the shm, and not any other task who has attached it.

How can we find all the vma structures that represent a shm?

-Kamran


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