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           Summary: xen-pae kernel can't initialize the right memory size
           Product: openSUSE 10.2
           Version: Final
          Platform: 32bit
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Kernel
        AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: dominik.zajac@xxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


xen-pae kernel can't initialize the right size of memory 
system has 8gb of memory installed 
if system is booted by a kernel without xen all memory is usable


system booted without options:
# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3370740     176576    3194164          0       3428      39956
-/+ buffers/cache:     133192    3237548
Swap:      1004052          0    1004052

/var/log/boot.msg:

<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000ce38f000 (usable)
<5>2571MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>727MB LOWMEM available.
<4>NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
<7>On node 0 totalpages: 844687
<7>  DMA zone: 186366 pages, LIFO batch:31
<7>  HighMem zone: 658321 pages, LIFO batch:31
<6>found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
<6>DMI present

<4> Aperture:     64 megabytes
<4> Kernel range: 0x00000000c2e09000 - 0x00000000c6e09000
<4>vmalloc area: ee000000-f51fe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
<6>Memory: 3260492k/3378748k available (1977k kernel code, 109164k reserved,
956k data, 184k init, 2633284k highmem)
<4>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
<4>Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6002.48 BogoMIPS
(lpj=12004966)
<6>Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      3370740 kB
MemFree:       3193932 kB
Buffers:          3776 kB
Cached:          39992 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          25560 kB
Inactive:        28188 kB
HighTotal:     2633284 kB
HighFree:      2570420 kB
LowTotal:       737456 kB
LowFree:        623512 kB
SwapTotal:     1004052 kB
SwapFree:      1004052 kB
Dirty:               8 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:        9984 kB
Mapped:           6916 kB
Slab:            11968 kB
PageTables:        536 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   2689420 kB
Committed_AS:    34948 kB
VmallocTotal:   116728 kB
VmallocUsed:      3308 kB
VmallocChunk:   112648 kB




system booted with option mem=8000M

#free output:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3370740     221544    3149196          0       4420      41856
-/+ buffers/cache:     175268    3195472
Swap:      1004052          0    1004052


/var/log/boot.msg:

Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.18.8-0.5-xenpae
Loaded 22634 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.18.8-0.5-xenpae.
Symbols match kernel version 2.6.18.
No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.

klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started.
<5>Linux version 2.6.18.8-0.5-xenpae (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2
20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000ce38f000 (usable)
<6>user-defined physical RAM map:
<4> user: 0000000000000000 - 00000001f4000000 (usable)
<5>7272MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>727MB LOWMEM available.
<4>NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
<7>On node 0 totalpages: 2048000


<6>Software IO TLB enabled:
<4> Aperture:     64 megabytes
<4> Kernel range: 0x00000000c5758000 - 0x00000000c9758000
<4>vmalloc area: ee000000-f51fe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
<6>Memory: 3218252k/8192000k available (1977k kernel code, 151468k reserved,
956k data, 184k init, 7446536k
highmem)
<4>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
<4>Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6002.53 BogoMIPS
(lpj=12005062)





# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      3370740 kB
MemFree:       3148824 kB
Buffers:          4716 kB
Cached:          41860 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          28476 kB
Inactive:        28940 kB
HighTotal:     7446536 kB
HighFree:      2568188 kB
LowTotal:     4290891500 kB
LowFree:        580636 kB
SwapTotal:     1004052 kB
SwapFree:      1004052 kB
Dirty:             104 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       10808 kB
Mapped:           7120 kB
Slab:            12192 kB
PageTables:        560 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   2689420 kB
Committed_AS:    35604 kB
VmallocTotal:   116728 kB
VmallocUsed:      3308 kB
VmallocChunk:   112392 kB


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