HugePages_Rsvd is greater than HugePages_Total in /proc/meminfo

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Issue

  • HugePages_Rsvd is greater than (wraps around to a very large number) HugePages_Total in /proc/meminfo
$ grep -i huge proc/meminfo 
AnonHugePages:    577536 kB
HugePages_Total:   12544
HugePages_Free:     3909
HugePages_Rsvd:    18446744073709542409
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.6
  • kernel-2.6.32-504.30.3.el6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1
  • kernel-3.10.0-229.el7

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