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Available memory calculation is wrong

Open m-mueller678 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

When initializing memory management, in src/mm/mod.rs:102 the space occupied by the kernel is subtracted from total_memoty_size().

let available_memory = (total_memory_size()
		- (kernel_end_address().as_usize() - env::get_ram_address().as_usize())
		- reserved_space)
		.align_down(LargePageSize::SIZE as usize);

But in src/arch/x86_64/mm/physicalmem.rs:42 it looks like that is already excluded from total_memory_size():

let start_address = if m.base_address() <= mm::kernel_start_address().as_u64() {
			mm::kernel_end_address()
		} else {
			VirtAddr(m.base_address())
		};

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m-mueller678 avatar Nov 29 '23 17:11 m-mueller678

@sarahspberrypi, any thoughts on this? You recently took a look at this code.

mkroening avatar Nov 30 '23 08:11 mkroening