On 06/26/2012 08:25 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
On Mon, 25 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.
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