Re: Common [01/19] slub: Add debugging to verify correct cache use on kmem_cache_free()

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On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, David Rientjes wrote:

> This could quickly spam the kernel log depending on how frequently objects
> are being freed from the buggy callsite, should we disable further
> debugging for the cache in situations like this?

This condition is pretty serious. The free action will be skipped
and we will be continually leaking memory. I think its best to keep on
logging this until someohne does something about the problem.

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