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DateThu, 19 Jun 2008 22:18:24 -0500
FromJon Tollefson <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.26-rc5-mm3: BUG large value for HugePages_Rsvd
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:27:47AM -0500, Jon Tollefson wrote:
> 
>> After running some of the libhugetlbfs tests the value for
>> /proc/meminfo/HugePages_Rsvd becomes really large.  It looks like it has
>> wrapped backwards from zero.
>> Below is the sequence I used to run one of the tests that causes this;
>> the tests passes for what it is intended to test but leaves a large
>> value for reserved pages and that seemed strange to me.
>> test run on ppc64 with 16M huge pages
>> 
>
> Yes Adam reported that here yesterday, he found it in his hugetlfs testing.
> I have done some investigation on it and it is being triggered by a bug in
> the private reservation tracking patches.  It is triggered by the hugetlb
> test which causes some complex vma splits to occur on a private mapping.
> 
sorry I missed that

> I believe I have the underlying problem nailed and do have some nearly
> complete patches for this and they should be in a postable state by
> tommorrow.
> 
Cool.
> -apw
> 
Jon



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