From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:37055 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751010AbYBYNj1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:39:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:38:46 +0000 From: Russell King Subject: Re: regression: 2f569af (CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.) Message-ID: <20080225133846.GA9945@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20080225132648.GA13791@digi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080225132648.GA13791@digi.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:26:48PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > I see the following: > > / # for i in 1 2 3; do grep PageTables /proc/meminfo; done > PageTables: 4 kB > PageTables: 4294967292 kB > PageTables: 4294967284 kB > > and I bisected it down to 2f569af (CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page > tables.) This still happens in 2.6.25-rc3. > > I have not investigated further, so I cannot tell if it's only the > output in meminfo that is broken. > > This is on ARCH=arm, on a Digi cc9p9360 with ns9xxx_defconfig. Note that there's been other reports of this on other ARM platforms as well. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: