On Tue, 26 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. > Ah, that makes sense. I think it would help if this was included in the changelog as well as a specifying that it is accounted to current's memcg at the time of the allocation in a comment in the code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
