<div dir="ltr">Baruch, thank you, but on my machine I do not have this line in dmesg. Indeed I use a x86_64 machine (also in the virtualized machine), and the PCI hole to which Nadav points says the problem exists only in 32 bit architectures.<div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, Mar 28, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>, Baruch Siach wrote about "Re: More RAM than MemTotal":<br>
<div class="im">> The (huge) "absent" figure comes from absent_pages_in_range() in<br>
> mm/page_alloc.c which, according to the comment there "returns number of page<br>
> frames in holes" within the entire RAM. I'm not sure what that means exactly.<br>
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</div>Check out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_hole" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_hole</a><br>
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