Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:41:05 +0400 | From | Glauber Costa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag |
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On 09/27/2012 05:34 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:04:02PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: >> This flag is used to indicate to the callees that this allocation is a >> kernel allocation in process context, and should be accounted to >> current's memcg. It takes numerical place of the of the recently removed >> __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. >> >> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> >> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> >> CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> >> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> >> CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> >> CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> >> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> >> CC: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> >> Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> > > I agree with Christophs recommendation that this flag always exist instead > of being 0 in the !MEMCG_KMEM case. If __GFP_KMEMCG ever is used in another > part of the VM (which would be unexpected but still) then the behaviour > might differ too much between MEMCG_KMEM and !MEMCG_KMEM cases. As unlikely > as the case is, it's not impossible. > > For tracing __GFP_KMEMCG should have an entry in > include/trace/events/gfpflags.h > > Get rid of the CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM check and update > include/trace/events/gfpflags.h and then feel free to stick my Acked-by > on it. >
Thanks, that is certainly doable.
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