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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0808142057520.12259@titan.stealer.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:08:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [regression?] [resend] Memory zone info seems incomplete in
boottime dmesg output
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> With 2.6.26 I get:
> <snip>
> Zone PFN ranges:
> DMA 0 -> 4096
> DMA32 4096 -> 1048576
> Normal 1048576 -> 1048576
> Movable zone start PFN for each node
> early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges
> 0: 0 -> 159
> 0: 256 -> 521844
> 0: 521961 -> 521964
> 0: 521983 -> 521984
> On node 0 totalpages: 521751
> DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap
> DMA zone: 1271 pages reserved
> DMA zone: 2672 pages, LIFO batch:0
> DMA32 zone: 7081 pages used for memmap
> DMA32 zone: 510671 pages, LIFO batch:31
> Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap
> Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
> </snip>
>
> With 2.6.27-rc1 I only get pages listed for 2 zones (bottom part):
> <snip>
> Zone PFN ranges:
> DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
> DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
> Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00100000
> Movable zone start PFN for each node
> early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges
> 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x0000009f
> 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007f674
> 0: 0x0007f6e9 -> 0x0007f6ec
> 0: 0x0007f6ff -> 0x0007f700
> On node 0 totalpages: 521751
> DMA zone: 2072 pages, LIFO batch:0
> DMA32 zone: 506625 pages, LIFO batch:31
> </snip>
>
> Note that totalpages is the same and that for 2.6.26 the sum of pages for
> all listed zones is equal to totalpages. Seems we've lost useful info
> here.
Could you make sure DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is activated (it should, if you've
not chosen the embedded feature) and boot with mminit_loglevel=3 and see
if you get the ouput you want.
Sven
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