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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:01:35 +0300
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To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 10:32 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> kmalloc-4096 causes problems in the long run and so do other caches that
> are of similar size. But it allows debugging to occur. Silently switching
> it off is something I am not comfortable with.

I suggested adding a

  printk(KERN_INFO ": debugging disabled for %s. Use slub_debug=a to "
                    "enable it blah blah blah\n");

Does that work for you?

			Pekka