On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sasha Levin wrote: > I think that leaving the warning makes sense to catch similar > things which are actually bugs - we had a similar issue with > /dev/kmsg (if I remember correctly) which actually pointed to > a bug. Right. Requesting an allocation larger than even supported by the page allocator from the slab allocators that are specializing in allocations of small objects is usually an indication of a problem in the code. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>