Re: + page-owner-tracking.patch added to -mm tree

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 10:20:49 EST



* Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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