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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I also would prefer to keep this out of SLUB. Set/Clear PageSlab dirties 
> the cacheline and it forces the unlining of kmalloc_large.

Hmm, well, that leaves ksize() open for more abuse. I guess we'll just 
have to live with that then.