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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/memcontrol.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 2fdd1380bf0..59ac95a6450 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ struct page; struct mm_struct; #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR +/* + * All "charge" functions with gfp_mask should use GFP_KERNEL or + * (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK). In current implementatin, memcg doesn't + * alloc memory but reclaims memory from all available zones. So, "where I want + * memory from" bits of gfp_mask has no meaning. So any bits of that field is + * available but adding a rule is better. charge functions' gfp_mask should + * be set to GFP_KERNEL or gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK for avoiding ambiguous + * codes. + * (Of course, if memcg does memory allocation in future, GFP_KERNEL is sane.) + */ extern int mem_cgroup_newpage_charge(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask); |