What are the main uses of the reserved memory in dmesg mapping.

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Issue

  • What are the main uses of the reserved memory in dmesg mapping.
  • Were is the 8 gb reserved memory in below dmesg used for?.
# dmesg | grep Memory
Memory: 528487516k/1006632960k available (2575k kernel code, 8372668k reserved, 1304k data, 212k init)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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