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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:16:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Small allocations may fail during slab bringup which is fatal. Add a BUG_ON()
> so that we fail immediately rather than failing later during sysfs
> processing.
> 
> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>