| Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:07:47 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/11] mm: Allocate kernel pages to the right memcg |
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:15:24PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > When a process tries to allocate a page with the __GFP_KMEMCG flag, > the page allocator will call the corresponding memcg functions to > validate the allocation. Tasks in the root memcg can always proceed. > > To avoid adding markers to the page - and a kmem flag that would > necessarily follow, as much as doing page_cgroup lookups for no > reason, whoever is marking its allocations with __GFP_KMEMCG flag > is responsible for telling the page allocator that this is such an > allocation at free_pages() time. This is done by the invocation of > __free_accounted_pages() and free_accounted_pages().
Shouldn't we be documenting that in the code somewhere, preferably in the function comments?
-- tejun
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