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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:25:48 -0700
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On 04/19/2018 09:12 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> 
> 
> These bugs are hard to reproduce because vmalloc falls back to kmalloc
> only if memory is fragmented.
> 

This sentence is wrong.

.... because kvmalloc() falls back to vmalloc() ...