* bootmem -> buddy allocator accounting
@ 2011-01-08 22:56 Andrew Murray
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From: Andrew Murray @ 2011-01-08 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mm
Hello,
I've added instrumentation into mm/bootm.c __free and __reserve
functions to report how many accumulative pages the bootmem allocator
reserves prior to the zone allocator. I had expected this figure
multiplied by the page size to equal the 'reserved' figure in the
'Memory: 126604k/126604k available, 4468k reserved, 0K highmem' line.
However this seems to be 'out by one'.
I'm using the latest stable kernel.org kernel, with
versatile_defconfig (ARM) - it seems that the figure reported by
arch/arm/mm/init.c (mem_init) - reports the reserved pages - via the
PageReserved macro's - a page size smaller (4468k) than that found via
my instrumentation (4472k).
Is a page being lost somewhere? not accounted for? or is it being
reserved elsewhere?
Many Thanks,
Andrew Murray
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