Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slob: Mark zone page state to get slab usage at /proc/meminfo

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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Tim Bird wrote:

> There's a certain irony here.  In embedded, we get all worked
> up about efficiencies in the slab allocators, but don't have a good
> way to track the larger memory allocations.  Am I missing
> something, or is there really no way to track these large
> scale allocations?

We could use consistent allocator calls everywhere. But these
large allocators are rather rare. And sometimes we need pointers to page
structs and other times we use pointers to the raw memory.

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