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Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM.
Problem:  kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542"

	Here is the dmesg output:

kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c0129b84>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 0000001b   ebx: d2922000   ecx: cdf6c000   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000007   edi: 00000000   ebp: 0806f124   esp: cb1bdef4
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process insmod (pid: 24167, stackpage=cb1bd000)
Stack: c02148eb c021498b 00000606 00000286 00000001 c02a75ec 00000029 d2922000 
       00000000 d2922083 01000000 00000007 d29221c0 01000000 c0116c65 00000000 
       cc8a6000 0000020c cc8a7000 00000060 ffffffea 00000003 c2be5420 00000060 
Call Trace: [<d2922000>] [<d2922083>] [<d29221c0>] [<c0116c65>] [<d2920000>] [<d2922060>] [<c0109057>] 

Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 31 c0 83 c4 10 5b 5e c3 eb 0d 90 90 90 90 90 

Repeat by:
	Compile simple driver attached.
	$ insmod test.o Amt=4096


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