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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 
> 
> 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() ...

Yes. There should be "falls back to vmalloc()".

Mikulas