Re: [RESEND PATCH] kmemtrace: SLAB hooks.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 03:17:50 EST


On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 21:37 +0300, eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm okay with this approach but then you need to do
> > s/__kmem_cache_alloc/kmem_cache_alloc_trace/ or similar. In the kernel,
> > it's always the *upper* level function that doesn't have the
> > underscores.
>
> Hmm, doesn't really make sense:
> 1. This should be called kmem_cache_alloc_notrace, not *_trace.
> __kmem_cache_alloc() _disables_ tracing.

kmem_cache_alloc_notrace() sounds good to me.

> 2. __kmem_cache_alloc is not really upper level now, since it's called
> only in kmalloc. So it's an internal function which is not supposed to
> be used by other kernel code.
>
> Are you sure I should do this?

Yes.

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