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Subject: Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9
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Vexing. The failure in the slabs suggests that no lowmem pages were freed 
during the walk of the bootmem bitmaps. Could you call show_mem before 
kmem_cache_init() runs?