Booting system with 'kernelcore' parameter causes numactl/numastat to report incorrect memtotal size
Issue
kernelcoreboot option causes the/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfoto report incorrectMemTotal.- numastat/numactl is reporting more memory than the system has after booting with
kernelcoreboot parameter. numactl --hardwareshows incorrect memtotal size of a node when booted withkernelcoreparameter.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- numactl/numastat
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