On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:22:24 Mauro Giachero wrote: > On 6/27/07, Pim Zandbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now: > > Jesse released a new patch and I tried if for fun on 2.6.22-rc6 > > It looks like the patch is releasing memory rather than trimming > > it: > > > > [...] > > Jun 27 12:22:56 corneille kernel: **** MTRRs don't cover all of > > memory, trimmed -65536 pages > > [...] > > From Jesse's patch: > > + unsigned long i, base, size, highest_addr = 0, def, dummy; > > [...] > > + printk(KERN_WARNING "**** MTRRs don't cover all of > > " + "memory, trimmed %ld pages\n", end_pfn - + > > (highest_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT)); > > Since both end_pfn (from arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c) and highest_addr > are unsigned long, maybe the problem is just that %ld in the kprintf > format string? Shouldn't that be %lu?
Yeah, you're right I should use an unsigned format string. Pim, if you change it to %lu does the printk in your dmesg look better? Thanks, Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/