Baruch, thank you, but on my machine I do not have this line in dmesg. Indeed I use a x86_64 machine (also in the virtualized machine), and the PCI hole to which Nadav points says the problem exists only in 32 bit architectures.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012, Baruch Siach wrote about "Re: More RAM than > MemTotal": > > The (huge) "absent" figure comes from absent_pages_in_range() in > > mm/page_alloc.c which, according to the comment there "returns number of > page > > frames in holes" within the entire RAM. I'm not sure what that means > exactly. > > Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_hole > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Mar 28 > 2012, > [email protected] > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Communism is the equal distribution > of > http://nadav.harel.org.il |poverty. > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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