From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753845AbYJ0Qul (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:50:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752516AbYJ0Qua (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:50:30 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:32252 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751937AbYJ0Qua (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:50:30 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,493,1220252400"; d="scan'208";a="396429026" Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:50:28 -0700 From: Suresh Siddha To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Siddha, Suresh B" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: keep the page count correct Message-ID: <20081027165028.GB30573@linux-os.sc.intel.com> References: <490406FD.30604@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490406FD.30604@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:58:21PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > impact: get correct page count for 2M and 1G... > > found page count in /proc/meminfo is nor correct on 1G system in VirtualBox 2.0.4 > > # cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 1017508 kB > MemFree: 822700 kB > Buffers: 1456 kB > Cached: 26632 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > ... > Hugepagesize: 2048 kB > DirectMap4k: 4032 kB > DirectMap2M: 18446744073709549568 kB > > with this patch get: > ... > DirectMap4k: 4032 kB > DirectMap2M: 1044480 kB > > which is consistent to kernel_page_tables > ---[ Low Kernel Mapping ]--- > 0xffff880000000000-0xffff880000001000 4K RW PCD GLB x pte > 0xffff880000001000-0xffff88000009f000 632K RW GLB x pte > 0xffff88000009f000-0xffff8800000a0000 4K RW PCD GLB x pte > 0xffff8800000a0000-0xffff880000200000 1408K RW GLB x pte > 0xffff880000200000-0xffff88003fe00000 1020M RW PSE GLB x pmd > 0xffff88003fe00000-0xffff88003fff0000 1984K RW GLB NX pte > 0xffff88003fff0000-0xffff880040000000 64K pte > 0xffff880040000000-0xffff888000000000 511G pud > 0xffff888000000000-0xffffc20000000000 58880G pgd > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Acked-by: Suresh Siddha