Re: 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo?

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 17:14:24 EST


On Wednesday, 5 of March 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > (If I try to suspend to disk, I get a rather nasty oops; goes away
> > > with mem=3G. Related?)
> >
> > The nasty oops is in swsusp_save+0x298 .
> >
> > rdx=0xffff810000001008
> > rdi=0xffff81000c001008
> > rdi=0x0000000131613000
>
> Rafael, this seems to be similar to some problem you were trying to
> solve... something with numa... I could not find it in
> bugzilla.kernel.org... do you remember details by chance?

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9966

[Just have a look at the list of regressions from 2.6.24. ;-)]

In fact, I didn't even try to solve it myself, but asked some knwoledgeable
people (CCed) for advice. No one responded, unfortunately ...

Thanks,
Rafael
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