Re: crash in __alloc_bootmem_core on SGI current cvs

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:06:29PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> > > Before:
> > >   On node 0 totalpages: 589824
> > >   zone(0): 589824 pages.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > After:
> > >   On node 0 totalpages: 65536
> > >   zone(0): 65536 pages.
> > 
> > I probably already got used too machines with gigs of memory to notice ;-)
> 
>  The number actually denotes the highest page, regardless of the number of
> pages, so you only need a single page placed far away from address zero to
> observe such large counts.

Wouldnt be this correct ? Realsize is size - holes.

Index: mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux/mm/page_alloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 page_alloc.c
--- mm/page_alloc.c     2001/01/11 04:02:45     1.49
+++ mm/page_alloc.c     2001/01/16 16:26:55
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@
                if (zholes_size)
                        realsize -= zholes_size[j];
 
-               printk("zone(%lu): %lu pages.\n", j, size);
+               printk("zone(%lu): %lu pages.\n", j, realsize);
                zone->size = size;
                zone->name = zone_names[j];
                zone->lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;

Flo
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