Re: 9a2d43b: __alloc_bootmem_core(): zero-sized request

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sun Aug 24 2008 - 04:23:42 EST


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Inserted a printk("nr_kernel_pages = %llu\n", nr_kernel_pages); and
> this is the output:
>
> nr_kernel_pages = 13869392367443771392

Also written as 0xc079fae000000000. Of which the upper 32 bits
"coincidentally" matches that of a symbol:

c079fae0 d mutex_Z2

But the significance eludes me...


Vegard

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