Re: /proc/kcore has a unreasonable size(281474974617600) in x86_64 2.6.30-rc8.

Amerigo Wang
2009-06-05T05:46:55Z

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:03:52PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Hi list,
> In 2.6.30-rc8, /proc/kcore in x86_64's size is unreasonable large
> to be 281474974617600.
> While in a x86 box, it is 931131392 which looks sane.
>
> [root@test8 ~]# ll /proc/kcore
> -r-------- 1 root root 281474974617600 Jun 5 11:15 /proc/kcore
>
> [root@ocfs2-test9 ~]$ ll /proc/kcore
> -r-------- 1 root root 931131392 Jun 5 11:58 /proc/kcore

Hmm, what is your physical RAM size on test8?
/proc/kcore looks fine on my x86_64 box.

>
> I just noticed this when kexec fails in "Can't find kernel text map area
> from kcore".
>
> Is there something wrong?

It looks like that error message is from userspace?