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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/11] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag
    On 06/26/2012 08:25 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
    > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
    >
    >> >This flag is used to indicate to the callees that this allocation will be
    >> >serviced to the kernel. It is not supposed to be passed by the callers
    >> >of kmem_cache_alloc, but rather by the cache core itself.
    >> >
    > Not sure what "serviced to the kernel" means, does this mean that the
    > memory will not be accounted for to the root memcg?
    >
    In this context, it means that is a kernel allocation, not a userspace
    one (but in process context, of course), *and* it is to be accounted a
    specific memcg.



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