Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-rc4 panic in __nr_to_section() with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Date | Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:53:07 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:47 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:33 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Oh, it isn't worth that effort, just test is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) > > in show_smap, and skip it if so - or make up appropriate numbers > > from (vm_end - vm_start) in that case if you like. > > I think the reason Badari was looking at it was that some DB guys want > to get some statistics out of there. They'll certainly care about > HugeTLB pages. > > With the HugeTLB prefault mechanism having gone away, we can't assume > that the pages are resident. So, I don't think just using the VMA's > size will work.
Yep. You replied before I can :)
Thanks, Badari
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