From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:31:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803052331.42193.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803052312.37996.rjw@sisk.pl>
Just commenting on the subject. The 34TB are not an over/underflow. x86-64
simply has so much address space reserved for vmalloc. It doesn't mean of course
that that much could be actually allocated in real memory.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 9:06 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo? Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 9:36 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 9:39 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 22:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-05 22:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-03-06 11:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-06 21:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 10:43 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 19:49 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-05 21:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-05 21:21 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 21:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-05 22:11 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-05 23:21 ` Hugh Dickins
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