Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:17:43 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: + page-owner-tracking.patch added to -mm tree |
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* Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote:
> One thing I'm not sure about this patch is whether it manages to > record an allocation only once, i.e. does it log a single event > when/if the slab allocator requests pages? Some time ago I sent a > patch adding GFP_NOTRACE to gfp.h, but was rejected. Maybe this > could be a way out of the mess. > > (GFP_NOTRACE would also allow us to log "backend" allocations > easily and treat them separately, for the record, or simply filter > them out.)
makes a lot of sense IMO to annotate these via a GFP flag.
Ingo
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