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Re: PCI devices (buses?) and 3GB of RAM lost with 4.2rc1

From Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: PCI devices (buses?) and 3GB of RAM lost with 4.2rc1
Date 2015-07-11 19:20 +0200
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Am 08.07.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
> this is on a Thinkpad X200s, 5 years old and working fine, until 4.2rc1
> came along.
> 
> With that booted, I do not have a WiFi card anymore, it doesn't even
> appear in "lspci" output.

> From diffing the dmesg's, it also looks like I lost some of my RAM:
> 
> -Memory: 8050048K/8280176K available (6401K kernel code, 980K rwdata,
> 4864K rodata, 1532K init, 1516K bss, 230128K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
> +Memory: 5104620K/8280176K available (6823K kernel code, 1096K rwdata,
> 3220K rodata, 1556K init, 1520K bss, 227792K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)

This was only a one-off thing, it looks like the hardware was confused
when first booting 4.2-rc1
(I found out when I wanted to bisect it, all the kernels I built did
just work, and then I finally booted the distro-kernel again and it also
worked :-)

So everything is fine, sorry for the noise.
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Re: PCI devices (buses?) and 3GB of RAM lost with 4.2rc1 Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> - 2015-07-11 19:20 +0200

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