Programming :: Shared Memory - Should They Show The Same Address?
Mar 17, 2010
So I'll try to be brief and to the point here: I've got a couple of C / C++ apps that communicate with one another via shared memory. These worked completely fine until.. well, about twenty minutes ago when I finished making some network card changes and suddenly, I've got a weird problem going on. At one point, Parent app waits for Child app to set a boolean indicating it's finished initialization. This worked fine the last time I ran this app up (a few days ago). But right now, the shared flag never seems to get triggered (I've added a printf("Waiting..."); in Parent app until the flag is set). All the code leading up to it being set in Child app seem to be running smoothly, so I tried spitting out the addresses of the shared memory locations. The addresses mapped by Parent app and Child app are different; this seemed odd, so I went back and wrote a simple miniature app that just opened a shared structure on my own box, and I get the same thing - different addresses - but the miniature apps work just fine.
Is it normal for a shared memory space to be mapped to two different addresses across two processes?
If so, does anyone have any idea what might be the issue at hand with my Parent / Child app scenario? The Child creates the shared memory, the Parent has a wait before it opens it, and if it doesn't exist should fail (opening with PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)... it doesn't fail so it's evidently there.
All of this worked until literally just a few hours ago and I made some changes to my network cards, and I can't even imagine how that could have changed whether or not shared memory mapping worked...
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Feb 21, 2011
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I imagine there might be all kinds of problems with this. Although my preliminary tests seem to work most of the time, I get crashes from time to time, but I'm not sure if they're caused by memory management or by threading issues. I've been restructuring my code to use a global context object to manage object creation and destruction from main(), but I'd like to find a clear exposition of the specific issues I'm dealing with before I go too much further.
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Here is my code:
(note: I tried using both 'shm_open()' and 'mmap()', and 'shmget()' and shmat()')
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
[code]....
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Compile Errors:
tony-pc:/cygdrive/p/test> cc -o fadec fadec.c
fadec.c: In function 'main':
fadec.c:30: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fadec.c:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
[Code]...
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Code:
//Prototype
void leave(int sig);
//part of code trying to use signal handling
if(signal(SIGINT, leave))
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ld 2.17
GNU gdb 6.6
This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux".
Code:
What could the cause of the message output by gdb possibly be? Reading some tutorials, I've learn the flat memory model is used in linux. So, in particular, I needn't care about the DS segment register.
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Code:
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struct image
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Code:
localhost router # free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
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[code]...
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Code:
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------ Shared Memory Segments --------
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Code:
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user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service apache2 restart
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Code:
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