Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752870AbYHXIXl (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:23:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751560AbYHXIXY (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:23:24 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:55197 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754682AbYHXIXU (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:23:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=o5pASknCNsd1HLVFfi7KcJNEsvfe4GqOZt6yni1gM6eF8WNm3+nASaVsJ4D/PfWj1o gg2/bu6x42KaZYyHF5ynxaa6S2Y1bNqR93ctdk/D70ll2/WT3O4+vgzPSPz0hd3ZFvlJ cQsAryqDWnXUCrTHKYA+IzWjQZCswhv+hCQgk= Message-ID: <19f34abd0808240123r3d5a7b61w5a35da15f6e5ef14@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:23:19 +0200 From: "Vegard Nossum" To: "Johannes Weiner" Subject: Re: 9a2d43b: __alloc_bootmem_core(): zero-sized request Cc: "Yinghai Lu" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0808240058h3d286151x18cba0939f175edd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <19f34abd0808221224s4674e5aaq34bd0a874dfba699@mail.gmail.com> <87myj4yzll.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <19f34abd0808240058h3d286151x18cba0939f175edd@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 26 On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Vegard Nossum 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 -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036 -- 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/