Hi Orna, On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:54:52PM +0200, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > 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.
Your kernel has probably filled its cyclic dmesg buffer. Do you see your boot messages with 'dmesg |head'? Anyway, these messages should be written somewhere under /var/log. On my machine (Debian) they are kept in /var/log/dmesg. baruch > 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 -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [email protected] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
