From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression: 2f569af (CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:38:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080225133846.GA9945@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225132648.GA13791@digi.com>
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:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 13:26 regression: 2f569af (CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.) Uwe Kleine-König
2008-02-25 13:38 ` Russell King [this message]
2008-02-25 15:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-02-25 15:45 ` let __dec_zone_page_state use __dec_zone_state Uwe Kleine-König
2008-02-27 19:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 7:45 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-02-29 19:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-25 16:56 ` regression: 2f569af (CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.) Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-26 14:38 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-02-26 17:57 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-26 19:49 ` Russell King
2008-02-27 12:44 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-02-27 14:21 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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