On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:38:15PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > This patch creates a mechanism that skip memcg allocations during > certain pieces of our core code. It basically works in the same way > as preempt_disable()/preempt_enable(): By marking a region under > which all allocations will be accounted to the root memcg. > > We need this to prevent races in early cache creation, when we > allocate data using caches that are not necessarily created already.
Why not a GFP_* flag? -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
