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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:46:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: possible bug in kmem_cache related code
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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.