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

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 02:48:14 EST


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.
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