On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:55:27PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> I just spotted this in /proc/meminfo on an old Core2 machine with 4G.
>
> DirectMap2M: 18446744073709543424 kB
>
> Looks like we subtracted 8192 from 0 somewhere.
>
> Should split_page_count() be checking that direct_pages_count > 0 ?
Ok, this diff makes that number print out as 0.
If this looks ok, I'll submit it properly, though I'd like to better
understand what's happening here. Shouldn't I have 2M pages ?
Dave
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index a3137a4feed1..ff0e0c6c350e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ void update_page_count(int level, unsigned long pages)
static void split_page_count(int level)
{
+ if (direct_pages_count[level] == 0)
+ return;
+
direct_pages_count[level]--;
direct_pages_count[level - 1] += PTRS_PER_PTE;
}
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