Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759161AbYCEWcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:32:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752448AbYCEWbr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:31:47 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45541 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762245AbYCEWbq (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:31:46 -0500 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo? Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:31:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Pavel Machek , kernel list , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner References: <20080305090610.GA30024@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20080305093923.GA2049@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <200803052312.37996.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200803052312.37996.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803052331.42193.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 469 Lines: 11 Just commenting on the subject. The 34TB are not an over/underflow. x86-64 simply has so much address space reserved for vmalloc. It doesn't mean of course that that much could be actually allocated in real memory. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/