[PATCH v3 05/13] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag

[Glauber Costa]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/gfp.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index f9bc873..d8eae4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 #else
 #define ___GFP_NOTRACK		0
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
+#define ___GFP_KMEMCG		0x400000u
+#else
+#define ___GFP_KMEMCG		0
+#endif
 #define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE	0x800000u
 #define ___GFP_WRITE		0x1000000u
 
@@ -91,7 +96,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 
 #define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */
 #define __GFP_WRITE	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE)	/* Allocator intends to dirty page */
-
+#define __GFP_KMEMCG	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_KMEMCG) /* Allocation comes from a memcg-accounted resource */
 /*
  * This may seem redundant, but it's a way of annotating false positives vs.
  * allocations that simply cannot be supported (e.g. page tables).
-- 
1.7.11.4

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