On 06.02.2007 [12:24:42 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:55:47PM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 05.02.2007 [16:25:34 -0800], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > Sorry, I botched Hugh's e-mail address, please make sure to reply to the > > > correct one. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Nish > > > > > > On 05.02.2007 [16:19:04 -0800], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > So, here's the current state of the hugepages portion of my > > > > /proc/meminfo (x86_64, 2.6.20-rc7, will test with 2.6.20 > > > > shortly, but AFAICS, there haven't been many changes to hugepage > > > > code between the two): > > > > Reproduced on 2.6.20, and I think I've got a means to make it more > > easily reproducible (at least on x86_64). <snip> > > Also note, that I'm not trying to defend the way I'm approaching > > this problem in libhugetlbfs (I'm very open to alternatives) -- but > > regardless of what I do there, I don't think Rsvd should be > > 18446744073709551615 ... > > Oh, certainly not. Clearly we're managing to decrement it more times > than we're incrementing it somehow. I'd check the codepath for the > madvise() thing, we may not be handling that properly.
FYI, Ken Chen's patch fixes the problem for me: http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=117079608820399&w=2 Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
