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

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Message-Id: <200803052331.42193.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:31:42 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo?


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
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