This issue was introduced with the massive kernel configurations changes
between mainline kernels 4.7-rc4 and 4.7-rc5. While I have been working
on it for a couple of weeks, I was never able to isolate the exact
kernel configuration change cause. I am compiling a kernel now (4.8-rc7)
reverting this change to test. This attachment has some tools I made to
very very simply show the issue.

If I look at linux/Documentation/workqueue.txt and do:

echo workqueue:workqueue_queue_work >
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event

and:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > out.txt

with the issue, I get somwhere between 10,000 and 20,000 occurances of
memcg_kmem_cache_create_func in the file (using my simple test method).
Without the issue, I get 21, and an overall file size about 50 times
smaller, for otherwise similar conditions. i.e. with the issue this
stuff seems to go nuts.


** Attachment added: "Some tools to simply show the issue"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1626564/+attachment/4746294/+files/bla.txt

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  4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

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