On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 5:51 AM Gupta, Pankaj <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx> wrote: > AFAIU the unaccepted memory also stays in buddy (first via slow path) > and should be accounted automatically in free? > No, the last patch adds unaccepted mem as a differently accounted memory type. > > > > So when I see 2044MB free vs 7089MB free in my VMs, the two are > > roughly 5GB different. > > Is it possible all memory got allocated with memblock? Maybe some > variable tests to validate with '/proc/meminfo | grep UnacceptedMem' > would give you more clue. > free -k parses /proc/meminfo for MemFree and SwapFree in /proc/meminfo, so it sounds like it should also add in UnacceptedMem. We'll try that. Thanks. -- -Dionna Glaze, PhD (she/her)