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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:44:47 -0800
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> My three boot attempts with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC are below.
> 
> 
> ERROR: kmemcheck: Fatal error

It might be that kmemcheck and DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC don't get along well -
try disabling kmemcheck?

It's worth persisting with DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC, please - if we can get it
working then it should be able to find a stray write into a freed 8k page
with precision.