[openib-general] Re: possible bug in kmem_cache related code

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Shirley Ma wrote:

> I hit a similar problem while calling kzalloc(). it happened on 
> linux-2.6.17-rc1 + ppc64.
> 
> kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at mm/slab.c:2934!
> which is 
>         BUG_ON(slabp->inuse == cachep->num);

More entries were added to a slab than allowed? This suggests a race on
slabp->inuse.