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SubjectRe: [PATCH] replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 18.08.09 17:38 >>>
>
>* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
>> Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of
>> physical pages found in a system, as that generally includes
>> (perhaps a huge amount of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what
>> actually is usable as storage should instead be used as a basis
>> here.
>>
>> Some of the calculations (i.e. those not intending to use high
>> memory) should likely even use (totalram_pages -
>> totalhigh_pages).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 4 ++--
>
>Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
>Just curious: how did you find this bug? Did you find this by
>experiencing problems on a system with a lot of declared non-RAM
>memory?

Actually, I noticed this on Xen (non-pv-ops) when booting a domain with
a sufficiently large initial balloon. Under that condition, booting would
frequently fail due to various table sizes being calculated way too large.

Jan



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