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Message-ID: <19f34abd0808240123r3d5a7b61w5a35da15f6e5ef14@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:23:19 +0200
From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...urebad.de>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 9a2d43b: __alloc_bootmem_core(): zero-sized request
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> 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
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